Seventh Day Adventist Church, 6 Clifton Avenue , STAWELL
6 Clifton Avenue STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The Seventh Day Adventist Church, 6 Clifton Avenue, Stawell, has significance as the centre of the local Seventh Day Adventist Church. Constructed in approximately 1908, the building has experienced a number of additions, particularly between 1955 and 1958, but the original form and some of the original detailing remain.
Although altered, the Seventh Day Adventist Church is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates some design qualities of a rudimentary Federation Gothic style. These qualities include the simple steeply pitched gable roof form, together with a minor porchgable at one end. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron (painted green), two tubular galvanised iron ventilation stacks, turned timber finial forming a decorative feature on one gable end, vertically boarded porch door and the timber framed windows with pointed timber Gothic heads.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with development of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Stawell from 1910.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and highly valued by the Stawell community for religious reasons.
Overall, the Seventh Day Adventist Church is of LOCAL significance.
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Seventh Day Adventist Church, 6 Clifton Avenue , STAWELL - Physical Description 1
The Seventh Day Adventist Church, 6 Clifton Avenue, Stawell, is set on a large and open allotment. The Church building is situated near the corner of the site, and is surrounded by open grassed areas. At the rear is a recent brick hall. The site is bound by a recent steel mesh fence, approximately 1200 mm high.
The rudimentary Federation Gothic styled building is characterised by a simple steeply pitched gable roof form, together with a minor porch gable at one end. These roof forms are clad in lapped galvanised corrugated iron painted green. Two tubular galvanised iron ventilation stacks adorn the main ridgeline, with a turned timber finial forming a decorative feature on one gable end. Other early features of the design include the vertically boarded porch door and the timber framed windows with pointed timber Gothic heads.
The walls are constructed of introduced horizontal fibro cement wall cladding that has possibly replaced original horizontal weatherboards. The bank of aluminium framed windows have also been introduced.
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: Local
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