Hawthorn Presbyterian Church
580 Glenferrie Road HAWTHORN, Boroondara City
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Statement of Significance
Architecturally, this church is a successfully designed, generally original and early example of a rarely used ecclesiastical style in the 19th century, that of the Byzantine revival. It is also enhanced by the more pedestrian but original Sunday School adjoining: of State importance.
Historically - a major public building on one of the older church sites in the area: of local importance.
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Hawthorn Presbyterian Church - Physical Description 1
A Byzantine revival styled dichrome brick ('black' and red) church, with stucco ornament, a rock-face basalt base, and Marseilles tile roof cladding and finials.
Pronounced, cemented corbel tables follow the eaves of the narthex, the gabled entrance portal and its echo above, in the main roof. Quatrafoil roof venting pierces the panelled stuccoed and gabled tympanum, accompanied by a multi-columnated main window arch, with three lights.
A similar arch allows entrance to the raised narthex floor level.
Occuli light the side walls to the church in the flanking bays to a central tripartite window group. The red 'rubber' bricks follow this group in a four course segment-arched band which, elsewhere, is horizontal at the clerestory light sill-height and under the main and secondary eaves.
An octagonal lantern-vent and finial, surmount the octagonal main roof and drum which is skilfully brought to ground by side-shaped forms, both square and facetted.
Heritage Study and Grading
Boroondara - Hawthorn Heritage study 1992
Author: Meredith Gould, Conservation Architects
Year: 1992
Grading: A
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