St Mary's by the Sea
Timber Gothic Revival chapel rebuilt after a cyclone, moved to the foreshore as a wedding venue.
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About this audio guide
This guide to St Mary's by the Sea in Port Douglas, Queensland, is built around the timber chapel itself, not the wedding photos taken in front of it. It traces the original eighteen eighty Catholic church, the cyclone that flattened Port Douglas in March nineteen eleven, and the hard timbers and buttressed walls carpenters chose when they rebuilt it in nineteen thirteen. Along the way it asks what a frontier town does with a landmark once its congregation is gone.
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