Ebenezer Particular Baptist Church, Former
159 Victoria Parade, COLLINGWOOD VIC 3066 - Property No 100565
Statement of Significance
The following wording is from the Allom and Lovell Building Citation, 1998 for the property. Please note that this is a "Building Citation", not a "Statement of Significance". For further information refer to the Building Citation held by the City of Yarra.
History:
The Collingwood Particular Baptists first met at a church in Wellington Street, moving to the Victoria Parade chapel at its opening in 1870. It continued in use in 1910 as the Ebenezer Particular Baptist church with Peter Johnston as pastor. By 1912 it was known as the Baptist Church.
The Particular, or Strict Baptist, held a different view from the General Baptists on the Atonement, believing that it applied only to a select few. The name Ebenezer is derived from the Hebrew word meaning 'stone of help' and was the name of the monument which Samuel raised to God after the victory of the Israelites over the Philistines. It was a popular name amongst the Particular Baptists who first settled in Melbourne from England in 1850.
The church is now used as offices.
Description:
The Former Ebenezer Particular Baptist Church, 159 Victoria Parade, Collingwood, is a simple, symmetrical polychromatic brick building with a gabled slate roof. The walls are of brown face brick, with cream brick dressings to window openings and eaves, and red and cream diaper work to string courses and stepped buttresses. The south elevation has a projecting, lower, enclosed entrance porch with a central arched doorway flanked by semi-circular arched windows with a string course at impost level. It has a cream brick parapet with brick cornice and central triangular pediment. Above this section, the main gable-end of the building has tripartite semicircular arched windows above a cream and red brick string course. The eaves are bracketed. The corners of the building have stepped buttresses with cream and red brick diaper work. The side elevations have brick buttresses separating large arched windows.
The interior has been substantially altered to accommodate offices.
Significance:
The former Ebenezer Particular Baptist Church, 159 Victoria Parade, Collingwood, is of local architectural significance. The building is a very good example of polychromatic brickwork applied to a church building, and a rare, possibly unique, example of the style in a church built by the Particular Baptists. The building is an important heritage element in the Victoria Parade streetscape. Its association with a minority 19th century Christian Church sect is of local historical interest.
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COLLINGWOOD TOWN HALL
Victorian Heritage Register H0140 -
RESIDENCE
Victorian Heritage Register H0142
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RESIDENCE
Victorian Heritage Register H0143
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"1890"
Yarra City -
"AMF Officers" Shed
Moorabool Shire -
"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOL
Victorian Heritage Register H1687
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'Boonderoo', House and Outbuildings
Greater Bendigo City -
'Riverslea' house
Greater Bendigo City
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1 Adam Street
Yarra City
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Notes See all notes
John East • 26/04/16
Argus, 10 Sept 1870, page 3: tender notice inserted by the minister of the congregation. Age, 26 Oct 1870, page 2: laying of memorial stone, builders are Spencer & Wainmain. Argus, 28 Dec 1870, page 5: opening.
Public contributions
Notes See all notes
John East • 26/04/16
Argus, 10 Sept 1870, page 3: tender notice inserted by the minister of the congregation. Age, 26 Oct 1870, page 2: laying of memorial stone, builders are Spencer & Wainmain. Argus, 28 Dec 1870, page 5: opening.
