UNITING CHURCH
28 SANDHURST STREET (BENDIGO-PYRAMID ROAD), RAYWOOD - PROPERTY NUMBER 201534, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
The Uniting Church is also of local social significance (Criterion G), as the focus of Methodist (and now Uniting Church) services since 1876, and as a prominent historic building in the local community context.
Aesthetically and architecturally (Criterion E), the Raywood Uniting Church is significant as a substantially externally intact 1870s small gabled Gothic Revival church. Elements of note include the rich brown brick walling, with varied colour gradation; the squat and buttressed gabled entrance porch with two-leaf door in a pointed opening, flanked by brick quoining; and the gabled breakfront above the porch in the main gable with a recessed blind lancet arch, and surmounting oculus vent with quatrefoil. The use of bichrome brick to generate quoin imagery in Victorian churches dates to at least 1858; the blind west front of the building, apart from the porch, is also unusual (Criterion B). The church is additionally a prominent element in the streetscape, with the steeply pitched roof having picturesque qualities. The informal landscape setting is also typical of numerous churches on the goldfields.
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UNITING CHURCH - Physical Description 1
The Uniting Church (former Methodist Church) at Raywood occupies a small site to the east of Sandhurst Street (Bendigo-Pyramid road), north of the school reserve. The gabled brick church building has a porch to the front and a modern addition to the rear. The building is located in the centre of the lot, setback from Sandhurst Street. A row of mature trees marks the rear boundary.
The Uniting Church is a small Gothic Revival bichrome brick church with a three-bay nave expressed with buttresses and lancet windows. Its steeply pitched roof has a single ridge and is clad in painted corrugated galvanised steel. Its liturgical west front comprises a low or squat gabled porch with buttresses, again clad in painted corrugated galvanised steel, and a two-leaf porch door set in a pointed opening and flanked by alternating cream brick headers and stretchers, to generate a quoin-like effect. Above the porch, on the main front gable, is a recessed, blind lancet arch set in a gabled breakfront with surmounting oculus vent and a quatrefoil surround inside the vent. The gable above has a flat plate coping, as does the rear (liturgical east) gable. There are no windows to the front gable. Splayed gable kneelers, two on each main gable, are expressed as paired and corbelled blocks with a double cyma recta outer moulding linking each block. All buttresses are two-step with cement rendered off-sets. The porch buttresses are squatter. The body of the church is constructed of rich brown brick, varied in colour gradation. The building appears to be in generally sound condition.
The single-storey rear addition reads as a later element, being built of pale bricks and having a shallow pitched roof. It is of similar width to the brick church building.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Heritage Policy Citations Review
Author: Lovell Chen P/L
Year: 2011
Grading: Local
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