The Wesleyan Methodist Church Wallington was built in 1888 and designed by Geelong architect A J Derrick and built by Mr Butler of Drysdale. It is a small weatherboard building in the Victorian Carpenter Gothic style with scalloped decorative bargeboards.
It is of aesthetic, social and historic significance to the local community .
The Wesleyan Methodist Church, now a Uniting Church , replaced an earlier church on the site and represents the religious and social importance of the Methodist denomination to the small agricultural farmers of the Wallington area. It is a smaller version of the church designed for the same denomination by AJ Derrick at Ocean Grove, and is similarly aesthetically pleasing . It is of LOCAL cultural significance.
References
References 1 Wynd, I. 1988 Balawein The history of the Shire of Belarine, p.107 2. Kemp, B 125 Years of Christian Witness, pA 3. The Spectator 11.5.1888 quoted in Kemp B ,op cit Lorraine Huddle Renate Howe Ros Lewis Karyn Francis CENTRE FOR AUSTRALIAN STUDIES DEAKIN UNIVERSITY 1996 BELLARINE HERITAGE STUDY RECORD SHEET
The Victorian Rustic Gothic church is sited on a corner block, with surrounding mature trees. The small , timber framed , weatherboard clad structure has a steep pitch gable roof, clad in new corrugated iron. The west elevation has a prominent gable that features distinctive, scalloped decorative timber bargeboards, a turned timber finial and pendant, and a triangular louvered vent as wall decoration. A small gable roof entrance porch is clad in new corrugated iron, and has matching scalloped bargeboards and finial on a smaller scale. A single fixed window with articulated timber architraves, has an interesting timber label mould above it. The north and south elevations are similar, with three multiple paned coloured glass windows, and a timber panelled door to the entrance porch, on each elevation. The east elevation prominent gable has simply notched decorative bargeboards and a turned timber finial.