FAWKNER METHODIST CHURCH & SUNDAY SCHOOL (FORMER)
1218-1220 SYDNEY ROAD,, FAWKNER VIC 3060 - Property No 48149
-
Add to tour
You must log in to do that.
-
Share
-
Shortlist place
You must log in to do that.
- Download report
Statement of Significance
The Fawkner Methodist Church & Sunday School (former) now known as the Samoan Presbyterian Church, opened in 1956, at 1218-1220 Hume Highway, Fawkner.
How is it significant?
The Fawkner Methodist Church & Sunday School (former) at 1218-1220 Hume Highway, Fawkner is of local historical and social significance to the City of Moreland.
Why is it significant?
Of historic significance as one of the earliest church buildings in the Fawkner area. It demonstrates a key phase of development of Fawkner during the immediate post-war period when it was being transformed from a farming area to a suburban housing estate. (AHC Criterion A.4)
Of social significance as a key local meeting place for over 50 years, which has strong associations with the Fawkner community. The recent use as the Samoan Presbyterian Church reflects the continuing cultural diversity of the Fawkner area, which has been a characteristic of the community in the post-war era. (AHC Criterion G.1)
-
-
FAWKNER METHODIST CHURCH & SUNDAY SCHOOL (FORMER) - Physical Description 1
The former Fawkner Methodist Church is a simple undistinguished single storey weatherboard building with a gabled corrugated cement roof. It has a small weatherboard entrance portico on the west (Sydney Road) elevation which has a flat (steel deck?) roof. The entrance features a small leadlight window with a two orange panes with a small pointed arch in each separated by a plain glass pane. On either side are double hung windows - the one to the right appears to retain a pointed arch in the upper pane. There are five double hung windows along the side elevations reminscent of an interwar school or hall building. A small weatherboard hall with a gabled roof of lower pitch has been added to the rear (east) elevation of the building which has strip windows under the eave line of the side elevation.
The larger hall to the rear, which was added in 1959, is a weatherboard structure with a low-pitched roof and continuous strip windows just below the eaves line.It is more intact, and in better condition, than the original hall to the front.
FAWKNER METHODIST CHURCH & SUNDAY SCHOOL (FORMER) - Physical Conditions
Good
FAWKNER METHODIST CHURCH & SUNDAY SCHOOL (FORMER) - Integrity
Altered
Heritage Study and Grading
Moreland - Moreland City Council: Local Heritage Places Review
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 2004
Grading: Local
-
-
-
-
-
FAWKNER MEMORIAL PARKVictorian Heritage Register H2331
-
FAWKNER MEMORIAL PARK TEAROOMS & GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE 1Merri-bek City
-
FAWKNER MEMORIAL PARKMerri-bek City
-
153 Morris Street, SunshineBrimbank City
-
186-188 Smith StreetYarra City
-
1ST STRATHMORE SCOUT HALL (FORMER)Moonee Valley City
-
-