Saint Bernard's Church, Presbytery and Parish Centre,

63 Lerderderg Street BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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St Bernard's Church, Presbytery and Parish Centre,

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  • Physical Description 1

    Saint Bernard's Church, Presbytery and Parish Centre, - Physical Description 1

    Exterior . A gable-roofed Decorated Gothic tuckpointed red brick church with a slate roof, aligned parallel to Lerderderg Street, this is to liturgical direction. It has five bays to the nave, a chancel with a vestry on its southern side, two porches opening into the nave sides and a tower. The windows have lancet pairs and quatrefoil, with foliate labels formed from Celtic band s.

    The west front has an upper large triple lancet window, with a six-foil light over. Below are two srnall iancets. All lancets inscribe ogee arches with cusps . Buttresses terminate in gables, with cruciform ridges. There is a rock-face base, generally. There are skillion vents to the roo f Porches, chancel and vestry have gable roofs, and porches are rendered. .

    The tower has a substantial base, soon reducing with a stop-chamfer to an octagon. It is

    quite severe, eventually reducing to a timber belfry, with lancets inscribing trefoils with labels, then curiously, a dentillated cornice and a candle-snuffer roof, termin ating in a ball and delicate metal cross. The presbytery has a octagonal chimney and convex shouldered windows and doors.

    Interior: There is an exposed timber roof structure of rafters with scissor braces and arch braces. There is a rare complete set of stained glass windows: there is a fine east window

    of the resurrection, the sanctuary windows to the memory of Thomas Cain and his wife, who died in 1913 and 1914, nave windows of saints in multi-lobed panels set in plain glass with Edwardian and even Art Nouveau decoration, and a cross ofjleur de lis motifin the quatrofoil. Between these are stations of the cross, painted on board.

    Presbytery: An eclectic two-storey Edwardian three-bay brick house, with a two-storey timber verandah on three sides, returning to projecting side wings towards the rear. A gabled frontispiece projects at the centre, with a finial. Windows are pairs on ground and triples on first floor with shallow segmental heads. The entrance is round headed and recessed, and with a label mould at first floor. Rectangular double-level bay windows project from the side wings. The upper gables jetty on brackets. Windows are quadruples, with highlights.

    The roof is slate, with roughcast chimneys with a decorative brick band and four pots. The verandah has plain tall posts on short brick plinths at ground level and at first floor are decorative balustrades, each third baluster wider and pierced with a tulip motif Posts are Doric and triples at comers, neatly allowing a cross motif above the linked capital s. There are cast-iron lace brackets. The footpath is a pre-cast concrete diamond pattern.

    Intactness

    Saint Bernard's Church, Presbytery and Parish Centre, - Intactness

    Excellent, especially the church interior.

    SIGNIFICANT INTACT ELEMENTS:

    FORM. church FACADE. church VERANDAH. presbytery ROOF FORM. church USE.

    ROOF DECORATION. VERANDAH DECORATION. presbytery

    CHIMNEYS. presbytery DOORS. WINDOWS. PAINTWORK SCHEME.

    STREET FURNITURE.

    Historical Australian Themes

    Saint Bernard's Church, Presbytery and Parish Centre, - Historical Australian Themes

    Community Life/ Townships.

    Physical Conditions

    Saint Bernard's Church, Presbytery and Parish Centre, - Physical Conditions

    CONDITIONS & THREATS: Good. There is vertical structural cracking in the church and staining ofits brickwork.

    Usage/Former Usage

    Saint Bernard's Church, Presbytery and Parish Centre, - Usage/Former Usage

    USE: Church, residence & office.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995

    Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
    Year: 1995
    Grading:

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