5. St Mary's
Catholic Church (site)

The first St. Mary's church opened on this site in March 1881 and was destroyed by the devastating cyclone of 1911. It was replaced by a new church (pictured) that opened in August 1914.
 
The land was sold in the 1980s in readiness to build a new St. Mary's to be located in Endeavour Street. In 1988 the Port Douglas Restoration Society moved the dilapidated building to Wharf Street where it was renovated and renamed St. Mary's by the Sea, a popular venue for weddings.

The presbytery, built elsewhere as a chapel in 1878, was moved here in 1883. The 1911 cyclone also levelled it, but a replacement (pictured) was quickly erected using the salvaged timber. It again served as a chapel until the 1914 church was built. In the 1930s it was sold and relocated to Owen Street at Mossman.

 

 

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