St. John's Roman Catholic Church, 19 Church Road, STUART MILL
19 Church Road STUART MILL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The St. John's Roman Catholic Church, 19 Church Road, Stuart Mill, has significance as a legacy of the development of the Catholic Church in Stuart Mill in 1912, and as a highly intact example of a rural Federation Early English Gothic style. The building appears to be in good condition.
The St. John's Roman Catholic Church at Stuart Mill is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a rural Federation Early English Gothic style. These qualities include the steeply pitched and parapeted gable roof forms, including the gables that project at the sides, together with the pointed arched windows and door openings, and the cement dressings surrounding these openings. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the face red brick wall construction, corrugated profile sheet metal roof cladding, modest eaves with exposed timber rafters, projecting brick and cement buttresses, crosses that surmount the apexes of the gables, lancet openings in the gable ends, and the cement dressings to the gable copings and the flat corners to the gable ends.
The St. John's Roman Catholic Church at Stuart Mill is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the Roman Catholic Church at Stuart Mill from 1912.
The St. John's Roman Catholic Church at Stuart Mill is socially significant at a LOCAL level.It is still recognised by some sections of the local community for religious reasons.
Overall, St. John's Roman Catholic Church at Stuart Mill is of LOCAL significance.
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St. John's Roman Catholic Church, 19 Church Road, STUART MILL - Physical Description 1
The St. John's Roman Catholic Church, 19 Church Road, Stuart Mill, has a rural setting surrounded by eucalypts, some pine trees and open grassed areas adorned with remnant garden beds featuring agapanthus.
The face brick Federation Early English Gothic styled building is characterised by a parapeted steeply pitched roof form, together with another parapeted gable that features gables that project to the sides. These roof forms are clad in galvanised corrugated iron.
Other early features of the design include the pointed arched windows and door openings with timber doors, cement dressings surrounding the window and door openings, crosses surmounting the apexes to the gables, narrow lancet openings in the gable ends, modest eaves along the sides with exposed timber rafters, cement dressings to the gable copings and the flat corners to the gable ends, and the projecting brick and cement buttresses.
Comparative
The design and construction of the former Roman Catholic Church at Stuart Mill has similarities with the Roman Catholic Church at Glenorchy that was built two years later in 1914. The Glenorchy Church was designed by Clegg, Miller and E.W. Riley, architects, of Horsham, Ballarat, Hamilton and Sale.
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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