ST MARY'S ANGLICAN CHURCH (FORMER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH)
47-49 SANDHURST STREET, RAYWOOD - PROPERTY NUMBER 201535, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
St Mary's Church is also of social significance (Criterion G) as the focus of the local Anglican community since c. 1895, including being the building in which church services were held over this period. The restoration and redecoration of the church in 1962, and its reconsecration, emphasise its ongoing importance to the local community.
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ST MARY'S ANGLICAN CHURCH (FORMER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH) - Physical Description 1
St Mary's Anglican Church (former Congregational Church) at Raywood occupies a rectangular allotment on the west side of Sandhurst Road, close to the Inglewood Street and Sandhurst Road intersection in the centre of the township. The brick church, which is believed to date to the 1870s, has a shallow and open set back to Sandhurst Road. There is a small bell tower to the north of the church.
St Mary's is a small brick and stuccoed church in the Gothic Revival manner, with gable ends and a steeply pitched roof form. There is a circular rose window to the front (east) gable surmounted by a large rendered relieving arch overlooking a buttressed porch. There are three buttressed bays to the nave with lancet arched windows. Each side lancet window has a rectangular surrounding panel of darker coloured brick, and sills with stub jambs.
The buttresses are two-step with double off-sets on the upper step and single-depth off-sets on the lower. At each corner they are angled. Their setbacks are expressed side-on as cement-rendered angled blocks, and the cement dressing continues upward at each corner to include a corbelled kneeler for the main gable. Each of these cement surfaces reads as cruciform in outline when seen from the street. The porch has a two-leaved entry door under a pointed arch. The main gable coping, as on the porch, is a set of flat plates. The roofs to the main gable and porch are clad with corrugated galvanised sheet steel, painted red. There are three vents to each face of the main gable roof.
There is a non-original gabled brick rear addition and relatively recent leadlight work to the rose window and the nave windows to both sides. The nave is anchored by three 'S' irons. A diagonal crack under the north springing line of the arch to the east gable has been re-mortared.
The building is sited in an informal open setting, with some post and wire boundary fencing.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Heritage Policy Citations Review
Author: Lovell Chen P/L
Year: 2011
Grading: Local
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RAYWOOD RESERVOIR.Victorian Heritage Inventory
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NIL DESPERANDUM MINE SITEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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