St James Anglican Church, 10 Edwards Street, GLENORCHY
10 Edwards Street GLENORCHY, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The St. James Anglican Church, 10 Edwards Street, Glenorchy, has significance as a predominantly intact example of a modest Federation Carpenter Gothic style and as a legacy of the Anglican Church in the Glenorchy district from the beginning of the 20th century. Built in c.1900, the building appears to be in fair condition.
The St. James Anglican Church at Glenorchy is historically and architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the Anglican Church at Glenorchy from c.1900, and it demonstrates original design qualities of a modest Federation Carpenter Gothic style. These qualities include the gable roof form, together with the minor entrance porch that projects at one side. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the horizontal timber weatherboard wall cladding, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, broad eaves with exposed timber rafters, timber framed pointed arched windows, pointed arched stained glass tripartite window in the gable end, galvanised ventilation stacks on the ridge line, and the vertical boarded timber entrance doors.
The St. James Anglican Church at Glenorchy is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by members of the Glenorchy district for religious reasons.
Overall, the St. James Anglican Church at Glenorchy is of LOCAL significance.
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St James Anglican Church, 10 Edwards Street, GLENORCHY - Physical Description 1
The St. James Anglican Church, 10 Edwards Street, Glenorchy, has a rural setting with open grassed areas, concrete pedestrian paths and perimeter trees.
The modestly scaled, horizontal timber weatherboard, Federation Carpenter Gothic styled Church building is characterised by a gable roof form, together with a minor entrance porch that projects at one side. These roof forms are clad in lapped galvanised corrugated iron. Broad overhangs with exposed timber rafters are features of the eaves.
Other early features of the design include the timber framed pointed arched windows, pointed arched stained glass tripartite window in the gable end, galvanised ventilation stacks on the ridge line, and the vertical boarded timber entrance doors.
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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