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City of Greater Bendigo, Heritage Policy Citations Project Lovell Chen, 2010 Name Uniting Church (former Wesleyan Church) Address 10 Camp Street, at the southwest corner of Church and Camp streets, Kangaroo Flat 1 Reference in 1998 Marong Study KF04 Map reference VicRoads 613 M3 Building type Church Survey date June 2010 (external inspection only) Date of construction 1871 Recommendation Include in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay Significance The Uniting Church is of local historical, social and aesthetic/architectural significance. Left: North and west elevations, addressing High and Camp streets respectively. Right: Rear (east) of the Uniting Church complex. Left: East elevation. The addition was built in 1986 following a fire. Right: Interwar Sunday School. Left: Aerial view, 2010 (Source: City of Greater Bendigo). Right: Proposed Heritage Overlay map, with the Uniting Church shown as KF04. Intactness Good Fair Poor 1
City of Greater Bendigo, Heritage Policy Citations Project Lovell Chen, 2010 History The Methodist sects were well represented in the former Marong Shire from the earliest years of European settlement, arguably more so than any other denomination, reflecting the presence of Cornish miners in the district. 2 The Wesleyans were the first sect to hold services in the former shire, from 1854, in a slab building at Kangaroo Flat. Also, in September of 1854, J D Mowbray opened a Wesleyan Day School at Kangaroo Flat, operating from a tent. He established a Sunday School shortly afterwards. 3 Mowbray’s tent was one of the first denominational schools in the former shire. 4 The Wesleyans at Kangaroo Flat relocated to the present site, on elevated ground to the south-west of the Camp and High street intersection, in 1856. A brick church was constructed there in 1858, designed by Reverend Joseph Dare. The foundation was laid by magistrate Lachlan McLachlan in August 1858. 5 The foundation stone of the present church was laid on 7 March 1871 by Thompson Moore, MLA for Mandurang and successful local businessman. It was designed by the eminent firm of Melbourne architects Crouch and Wilson who undertook many church commissions. The builder was Gibbons of Castlemaine and the cost £1,150. The church was opened on 4 July 1871, from which point the earlier brick church was used as the Sunday School. 6 The trustees of the new Wesleyan Church were Thompson Moore, J S Lithgo, David Weir, Sidney Courtier and J J Christian. The 1858 church was extended in 1936, and inn 1952 the original section of the 1858 church was demolished and replaced with a new Sunday School Hall and a vestry. These new additions were opened on 25 September 1954. 7 In 1977, the Methodists, Presbyterians and Congregationalists combined to form the Uniting Church, and in May 1982 a fire damaged a weatherboard addition at the rear (east) of the 1871 church. It was replaced with additional accommodation and a new brick wall in 1986. 8 Victoria’s Framework of Historical Themes Victoria’s themes and sub-themes: 8.1: Maintaining spiritual life 8.2: Educating people Description & Integrity The Uniting Church (former Wesleyan) complex comprises a substantial gabled bichrome brick Gothic Revival church (1871) and brick Sunday School (1936). The buildings are located to the west end of a deep site, on elevated ground behind a small open landscaped park close to Kangaroo Flat’s historic centre. The main presentation is to the west (High Street), behind the deep setback. The gabled west façade of the 1871 church, facing High Street, is subdivided into three elements, having a central geometric arched west window and doors in each flanking bay, with three oculus windows outlined in cream brick, one over each door, the other above the main window. The main window has four lancets rising to support three quatrefoils with seven linking triangular lights. The side windows are all simple lancets with diamond-pattern lead pane joints. Their heads are expressed in cream brick. The plinth is of rough-cut sandstone and there is a decorated wrought iron cross at the gable apex, set in a chamfered block-finial. The steeply pitched roof has slate tile cladding, capped with a notched ridge, and with three dormer vents on each side. The lower gable edges are finished with two kneelers delineated in cream brick. The facade also has a pair of diagonal two-stage buttresses in red brick with cream brick off-sets, and this treatment is repeated on the six other buttresses to the side walls, these being set at right angles. The breakfront around the main window is topped by a gable with two more kneelers projecting to each side and finishing a run of cream brick up each breakfront corner, each laid in three course sets of alternating length to produce quoin imagery. The plan is a basic nave, and there is no chancel expressed externally. A larger addition has been made to the Church Street (east) side of the church, in the wake of the 1982 fire. This includes a broad porch to the north side that continues around to Church Street. The outer component has a large flat roof with timber fascia and metal decking, supported by blade piers in brick. It breaks open at the north-east corner to include an integral pergola with diagonal beams. On the Church Street side, this pier theme becomes a set of wing walls separating five (sashed) window bays. The porch entry is a floor-to-ceiling set of fixed glass panes with a main door. Immediately behind the flat roofed area is a lean-to pitched roof forming a gable-hip with the church’s original east end gable. The lean-to east end roof is clad in Marseilles pattern tiles and standard tile 2
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