Head stones in the Paddington Cemetery with Christ Church in the background

Services were first held in the Mortuary Chapel of the Paddington Cemetery but as the congregation grew, building started on a stone church in 1874 and dedicated by Bishop Hale in 1876.

It was destroyed by a storm in 1890 and replaced by the current weatherboard church that opened in 1891 which still survives on the site which is right next to Suncorp Stadium.