Andrea Stombuco

Andrea Giovanni Stombuco (1820–1907) was an Italian-born Australian sculptor and architect. Many of the buildings he designed are listed on the heritage registers in Australia.

Early life Andrea Stombuco travelled widely and was involved in various business enterprises, including stone quarrying at Cape Town in the Cape Colony.

Career Victoria Andrea Stombuco emigrated to Victoria in 1851. After trying his luck on the goldfields, he established himself in Victoria as a sculptor, monumental mason, builder and architect, and found a patron in the Roman Catholic Church. He was the contractor for a number of Catholic churches in Victoria and for most of the stonework of Ballarat Cathedral. Stombuco at the time conducted a practice in Verner Street of that city.

Queensland Stombuco moved to Queensland in 1875 on the advice of Rev. Patrick Dunne of Goulburn, and may have been appointed Catholic Diocesan Architect, receiving a number of important architectural commissions from the Roman Catholic Bishop of Brisbane, James O'Quinn. These included St Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace at Brisbane (1875–76), St Mary's Presbytery at Ipswich (1876), St Francis Xavier Church, Goodna (1880–81), part of All Hallows at Petrie Bight (1880–82) and St Patricks Church, Fortitude Valley (1880–82). With his eldest son, Giovanni Stombuco, whom he took into partnership in 1886, he also designed St Joseph's College, Nudgee, erected 1889–90. Among his more prominent non-Catholic works were St Andrews Anglican Church, South Brisbane (1878–83) and Her Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane (1885–88). the Main Building of All Hallows' School, a heritage-listed convent and school in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane Bertholme, a heritage-listed residence in New Farm, Brisbane Heckelmanns Building, a heritage-listed retail and warehouse building in Elizabeth Street, Brisbane Mountview House, a heritage-listed residence in Spring Hill, Brisbane Palma Rosa, originally called Sans Souci, a heritage-listed residence in Hamilton, Brisbane Rhyndarra, a heritage-listed residence in Yeronga, Brisbane St Andrews Anglican Church, a heritage-listed church in South Brisbane the first portion of the Main Building at St Joseph's College, Nudgee, a heritage-listed school at Nudgee, Queensland, Brisbane Theatre Royal, Brisbane's first theatre, built 1865, demolished 1987

Ipswich St Francis Xavier Church, a heritage-listed church in Goodna, Queensland The presbytery within St Marys Roman Catholic Church Precinct, a heritage-listed precinct in Ipswich, Queensland