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ST THOMAS' ANGLICAN CHURCH
756-760 MT ALEXANDER ROAD, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

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Statement of Significance
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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
St Thomas' Anglican Church complex, at 756-760 Mt Alexander Road, Moonee Ponds is significant. The following buildings contribute to the significance of the place.

- The church to the extent of the church designed by Knight & Kerr, the late nineteenth century additions by Bruford & Braim, and the 1954 tower addition designed by Louis Williams.
- The church hall
- The vicarage*

Non-original alterations and additions to the contributory buildings other than specified above and other buildings on the site are not significant.

*The vicarage has an individual place record and statement of significance.

How is it significant?
St Thomas' Anglican Church complex, Moonee Ponds is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?
The church is historically and socially significant as the oldest surviving church and public building in Essendon. The church hall and tower are also significant as rare examples of church buildings erected as war memorials. The tower addition is significant as an example of the work of prolific church architect, Louis Williams. (Criteria A, B & H)

The church is architecturally significant as a surprisingly cohesive design in the established parish church style which has been altered in detail. The tower gives the building landmark qualities as part of a group of community and civic buildings in this part of Mt Alexander Road. (Criterion E)

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- Physical Description 1
  
  ST THOMAS' ANGLICAN CHURCH - Physical Description 1
  
  A rough cast stuccoed masonry church in the Early English Parish Church mode, with a gabled porch, lancet side windows, a steeply gabled and slated main roof, a two-light main western window with quatrafoil light and hood-mould over and corner and stepped buttresses to the main side walls. This is the 1859 building.
  
  Major, similarly designed trancepts from the 1885-90 work, occur at the east end, whilst a sympathetically designed buttressed square bell tower, with crenellations, has been added in 1954 to the north-west corner (cf Anglican Church at Queenscliff).
  
  The church is in good condition and has a relatively high degree of external integrity. The main door and diamond pattern glazing to the first section has been replaced; rough cast stucco (of this century) covers all sections, enabling a relatively homogenous appearance despite 100 years of building; the double palisade spade head picket fence has been removed (refer photograph held by ECC)
  
  At the rear of the church is the church hall. It is a gabled building, constructed in brick with a tiled roof. A cement plaque on the end wall identifies it as the Soldiers' Memorial Clubroom'. Landscaping which appears from early this century (privet hedges, cypress and palms) is supportive to the period atmosphere. The church complex forms part of a group of civic and community buildilngs that include the former town hall and court house.
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Heritage Study and Grading
  
  Moonee Valley - Essendon Conservation Study
  
  Author: Graeme Butler
  Year: 1985
  Grading:
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- FORMER CURATOR'S COTTAGE
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H1078
- FORMER MOONEE PONDS COURT HOUSE
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H1051
- ST MONICAS CATHOLIC CHURCH
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H1217
- "1890"
  
  Yarra City
- "AMF Officers" Shed
  
  Moorabool Shire
- "AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOL
  
  Victorian Heritage Register H1687