BY H. C. RICHARDS. 121 



In the Town Hall some of the smooth-dressed stones in 

 exposed positions ha\ e exfoliated to some extent, but when 

 compared with the Sj'dney sandstone which was used in 

 the front to the first cornice, the Goodna stone shows up \er3' 

 well. The stone in the wall around the Botanic Gardens 

 along Alice Street was deri\ed from Jea3^s quarry and was 

 at one time a retaining wall at the old gaol at Petrie Terrace. 



Geary's quarry at Goodna supplied the stone for the 

 old St. Stephens R.C. Church in Elizabeth Street. This was 

 erected in 1860-61, Pugin, the celebrated architect, design- 

 ing it. This church is noted for its very beautiful tracery 

 window and unfortunately also for the bad state of 

 preservation of the stone in the building (see text-fig. 15). 

 The stone is a coarse-grained, light greenish-brown in colour 

 with abundant clayey cement and containing a great deal 

 of carbonaceous material. The stone has weathered very 

 badly indeed and is quite beyond repair. 



The ■■ Woogaroo " Quarry which was worked by Smith 

 and Rees is situated on the ri\ er bank and supplied stone 

 for the fence wall in front of the South Brisbane Cemetery, 

 for certain alterations in the Supreme Court and for the 

 tower and tracery in St. Paul's Presb3rfcerian Church (1887) 

 in Leichhardt Street. This quarry after being well opened 

 up was flooded : after being cleaned out and operations 

 recommenced it was reflooded : this caused it to be 

 abandoned. 



Although the Goodna sandstone from Gearj^s quarrj' 

 in the old St. Stephen's Church furnishes the worst example 

 we have in Brisbane of inferior stone. Parliament House 

 with its stone from Jeay's quarr}" has been erected for 

 something o\er half a century, and except for slight fretting 

 ^way in the base course it is in excellent condition and has 

 a yery fresh appearance. 



Moggill Sandstone. 

 This stone Avas used in the west part of the Alice Street 

 front of Parliament House and in the arcade facing the same 

 street. It is a broAvn sandstone of poor cementing qualities, 

 and after being in the arcade for about 9 years it crumbled 

 and became unsafe. The arcade was pulled down and re- 

 built with Murphy's Creek sandstone. The stone from 



