Uniting Church (Former Presbyterian), 11-13 Carfrae Street, GLENORCHY
11-13 Carfrae Street GLENORCHY, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The Uniting Church, 11-13 Carfrae Street, Glenorchy, has significance as an example of the Victorian Early English Gothic style and as a legacy of the development of the Presbyterian (later Uniting) Church in the district. Built in c.1865 as a Presbyterian Church, the Glenorchy congregation was led by several Home Missionaries between 1900 and 1961.
The Uniting Church at Glenorchy is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although the gabled porch has been added, the Church still demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian Early English Gothic style. These qualities include the steeply pitched gable roof form, with its white-painted cement rendered parapet coping at one end. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the modest scale, brick wall construction (but not the overpainting), lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, projecting brick buttresses with white painted cement rendered dressings, pointed arched timber framed multi-paned windows, white painted cement rendered window sills, white painted cement rendered drip moulds above the window on the main gable end, narrow eaves, pointed arched double door opening within the porch, and the oculus ventilator within the main gable end.
The Uniting Church at Glenorchy is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the Presbyterian Church at Glenorchy from the second half of the 19th century. Built in c.1865, the Church formed a critical part of the Glenorchy Home Missionary Circuit between 1900 and 1961. In 1977, the Church became a Uniting Church with the Union of the Methodist, Congregationalist and several Presbyterian Churches in Australia.
The Uniting Church at Glenorchy is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by sections of the Glenorchy district for religious reasons.
Overall, the Uniting Church at Glenorchy is of LOCAL significance.
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Uniting Church (Former Presbyterian), 11-13 Carfrae Street, GLENORCHY - Physical Description 1
The Uniting Church, 11-13 Carfrae Street, Glenorchy, has a rural setting with open grassed immediate surrounds and nearby substantial eucalypts and some shrubbery.
The simple, brick (now painted), Victorian Early English Gothic styled Church building is characterised by a steeply pitched gable roof form which has a white-painted cement rendered parapet coping at one end. This roof form is clad in lapped galvanised corrugated iron. There is also a small gabled porch at one end that has been introduced and is constructed of cement sheet weatherboards.
Other early features of the design include the projecting brick buttresses with white painted cement rendered dressings, pointed arched timber framed multi-paned windows, white painted cement rendered window sills, white painted cement rendered drip moulds above the window on the main gable end, narrow eaves, pointed arched double door opening within the porch, and the oculus ventilator within the main gable end.
Heritage Study and Grading
Northern Grampians - Shire of Northern Grampians - Stage 2 Heritage Study
Author: Wendy Jacobs, Vicki Johnson, David Rowe, Phil Taylor
Year: 2004
Grading:
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