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City of Port Phillip Heritage Review
Identifier
Formerly
Address
Significance
Description
Wesleyan Church Complex
unknown
Fitzroy St
ST. KILDA
Constructed 1857-58
Amendment C 29
Comment
The Wesleyan church itself is an early building of its type and together with the other buildings on the site,
forms an intact complex of church buildings.
Primary Source
Nigel Lewis and Associates, St. Kilda Conservation Study, 1982
Other Studies
The existing bluestone Wesleyan Church, Fitzroy Street, was erected in 1857-58, and was the second church
to be built on the site. Designed by Crouch and Wilson, the Gothic church features a square central entrance
tower with Early English stepped buttresses and pinnacles above. The sides of the rectangular nave feature
narrow lancet windows which alternate with buttresses. Adjacent to the church is a brick school building which
replaced the original timber one in 1888. The red brick Gothic building, which features cream brickwork, was
designed by Percy Oakden. The original parsonage, erected in Princes Street at the rear of the church in
1856 and designed by T.J. Crouch, was demolished in 1888 and the second one erected in the following year.
This two storey residence was probably designed by Percy Oakden and Ralph Wilson and built by T.B. Allen.
The fourth building on the site is the third parsonage which was designed by A. Eggleston, the result of an
architectural competition early this century and erected by R.J. Jones.
Intactness
The complex of buildings are substantially intact.
History
see Description
(Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)
Fitzroy St
Princes St
Category Church
Pattison St
Heritage Precinct Overlay None
Heritage Overlay(s) HO128
Designer Crouch and Wilson
Citation No:
155