Redcliffe Town Council Chambers (former)

The former Redcliffe Town Council building is a fantastic art deco building situated on Redcliffe Parade. It was designed by Sidney William Prior and constructed by CG Thiedeke in 1941. It symbolises a period of development in Redcliffe spurred on by the 1935 construction of the Hornibrook Highway. The state-of-the-art modern building features a curved façade, glass bricks and stained glass. It originally provided shopfront council services, meeting room and offices, as well as rooms for the South Coast Hospitals Board. These included a surgery, two examination rooms, treatment room, dispensary and waiting room. The central meeting room had high ceilings and acoustic plaster on the walls. The mayor’s dais at the end of the room was backed by a 4m high stained glass window featuring John Oxley, the explorer who discovered the Brisbane River, and accompanied the first settlers to Redcliffe in 1824. The Oxley Memorial is on the waterfront esplanade opposite. The Council vacated the building in 1972 and a community health centre operated for some time. Extensive damage occurred in a fire in 2006. Recently, a firm of solicitors purchased the old Council Chambers, restoring it for their offices. A new high-rise apartment building stands behind it.