UNITING CHURCH (FORMER WESLEYAN CHURCH)
10 CAMP STREET, KANGAROO FLAT - PROPERTY NUMBER 197464, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

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Statement of Significance
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UNITING CHURCH (FORMER WESLEYAN CHURCH) - Physical Description 1
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 facade 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 ridge capping. A timber fascia set above a row of clerestory windows. The addition is not a sympathetic element and conceals the original gable end to which it is attached.
The inter war Sunday School to the immediate south of the church is directly linked to the flat roofed component of the 1980s addition, with metal-deck roofing running through and linking with its north porch wing. This obscures the Sunday School's east elevation, apart from the plain brick rear gable; the addition also internalises the south windows of the 1871 church.
The Sunday School is of red brick with a rough cast gable end, decorated panels in clinker brick, a central gable vent and a broad gable eave, supported by four diagonal timber brackets. It has a cruciform pitched truss roof clad in corrugated galvanised steel, with two transverse wings to each side of the main gable as it faces High Street. The corbelled side gables are plain brick panels, and the main (High Street) wall is dominated by a four-light timber-framed central fanlight window bisected with a brick pier. The fanlights have pent heads, carrying the Gothic influences further. This window is crowned by a Tudor-looking hood mould with label-stops, and flanked by a pair of two-stage buttresses with cement-rendered off-sets. The High Street wall has a thick, flush course line in rendered cement running across its front.
A toilet block is located to the west (front) of the Sunday School, with a flat roof clad in steel decking, red face brick walls and boxed eaves. A timber ramp has been added to the north-west corner of the Sunday School, and its framing supports a recent lean-to porch roof. The toilet entries are screened by crimped steel panels attached to a light steel frame. The steel ridge-vents above the hall are recent. These elements are also not sympathetic to the Sunday School and obscure views of its main facade.
The open space to the west of the deep site was landscaped as a small municipal park during the early 1990s, by arrangement with the former Rural City of Marong.9
The original fabric of the church appears to be in generally sound condition but shows evidence of structural movement. This is marked along the north side walls, where mortar courses have fallen out at various places. A conspicuous vertical crack has opened between the bricks alongside one of the side lancet windows and runs down to the base.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Heritage Policy Citations Review
Author: Lovell Chen P/L
Year: 2011
Grading: Local
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