ASCOT VALE BAPTIST CHURCH
45-49 EGLINTON STREET, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Ascot Vale Baptist Church, 45-49 Eglinton Street, Ascot Vale built in 1910-11 by the architect and builder G.F. Ballantyne is significant.
The hall and later alterations and additions to the church and hall are not significant.
How is it significant?
The Ascot Vale Baptist Church is of local historic, architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.
Why is it significant?
It is historically important (Criterion A) as the centre of Baptist worship in the area since 1911.
It is of architectural and aesthetic importance as a prominent Edwardian Free Style Church, which may be compared with the contemporary and later work of architect Robert Haddon. (Criterion D & E)
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ASCOT VALE BAPTIST CHURCH - Physical Description 1
A red brick unpainted cement Education Freestyle Gothic church with dominant gable end and west window balanced by entry porches, distinguishing stylistic ***** including the capped *****, external window mullions, and parapet and coping silhouettes. Inside, the nave has a sloping floor with original timber pews. Plain painted walls and a varnished' ***** timber lined ceiling with scissors trusses and hammer beam treatment with a ****** and dark varnished finish. There is a railed sanctuary with later fittings. The east side wall has been built in. The church is in good condition and has a relatively high degree of external integrity.
The gable roofed hall is of clinker bricks and has been recently extended at the front and side to form an office and a lobby with a new rear addition. Inside the hammer beam trusses extend the motif of the earlier church and there is a cement architrave to the former stage. The hall is in good condition, but as a result of the additions has a low degree of external integrity.
Heritage Study and Grading
Moonee Valley - City of Moonee Valley Heritage Study
Author: Andrew Ward
Year: 1998
Grading: Local
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