FORMER HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH
35 HIGH STREET, MARONG - PROPERTY NUMBER 227920, GREATER BENDIGO CITY
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Statement of Significance
The church is also significant for its association with the prominent and prolific Bendigo architect, William C Vahland, whose commissions included notable residential buildings, as well as many important public, civic and commercial buildings in the municipality (Criterion H).
The church additionally has some social significance as the local focus of Anglican worship at Marong, and the Anglican community, for over 100 years from 1878 until the 1990s (Criterion G).
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FORMER HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH - Physical Description 1
The former Holy Trinity Anglican Church (built 1878) at Marong is a small brick gabled Gothic Revival parish church set back from the west side of High Street in the centre of the township. In recent years the church has been adapted as a private residence. It has a three-bay nave with articulated sanctuary and vestry, the vestry being a later addition (1897). The west elevation has a porch with central entry door, small flanking buttresses and a sturdy cross finial. Above that is a curved triangular window with a cement-rendered hood mould. The roof is timber framed and clad in corrugated galvanised steel. Another cross finial is located at the top of the west gable. Red bricks are relieved by black string courses visually anchoring the nave windows at their arch springs and window sills. Tuck-pointed bright red brickwork outlines the arches. The nave, sanctuary and vestry windows are all simple lancets, with the sanctuary windows arranged in a group of three. Thick gable profile cement copings to the parapeted gable ends have cusped terminations. The buttresses are two-stepped with cement rendered off sets and are diagonal at all major external corners. The gable has prominent gable-topped kneelers with triangular trefoils sitting on corbels and piers turned diagonally into the corner buttresses below them.
There have been no major external additions since the vestry of 1897 and that continued the original style of the church, even reproducing the rather High Victorian cranked linkage between its gable kneelers and the diagonal buttresses. Modifications to adapt the property to a residence include the introduction of corrugated sheet steel fences to the north, west and south boundaries (which are unsympathetic); discreet flues to the north and south of the nave, an air-conditioning unit adjacent to the entrance, and the removal of the post-mounted bell, cast by J W Horwood's Albion foundry at Castlemaine.
The former Holy Trinity Anglican Church appears to be in generally sound condition, with evidence of some structural movement.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Heritage Policy Citations Review
Author: Lovell Chen P/L
Year: 2011
Grading: Local
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