ESSENDON BAPTIST CHURCH

124 BUCKLEY STREET, ESSENDON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY

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Essendon Baptist Church

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  • Physical Description 1

    ESSENDON BAPTIST CHURCH - Physical Description 1

    The Essendon Baptist Church complex stands mid-block on the north side of Buckley Street between Violet and Flower streets. The church stands at the front of the site on Buckley Street, between the contemporary extension (c2000) to the west and the church carpark to the east, and there is a brick Sunday school constructed in 1938 as an extension to the rear of the church.

    The 1915 Essendon Baptist Church is an Early English Gothic Revival design with a prominent parapeted gable to the main church form. The church has a simple rectangular plan and is constructed in red brick with soft orange brick ("rubbers") and painted cement-render dressings. It has two parapeted porches, one on each side of the gabled facade, connected by a lower parapeted central lobby. The side elevations of the two porches contain the original ledged entrance doors with decorative strap hinges and leaded pointed arch highlight. Due to the slight slope in the gradient, the door to the western bay was originally accessed by stairs, no longer extant. Each has a pair of lancet windows with hood moulds facing the street, and the lobby between has a row of three smaller lancet windows. The face of the gable above has three stepped lancet windows set in a lancet-form blind arch, between two slender engaged piers.

    The c2000 extension has obscured the western elevation; however the buttressed east elevation is divided into five bays, the first four containing a single lancet window with hood moulds. The fifth bay contains an entrance matching those of the front bays. The tiled roof retains original metal ventilators and is capped with terracotta ridge detail.

    The eastern elevation of the 1938 Sunday School extension is visible from Buckley Street and the church carpark. The extension has a simple rectangular form with a hip-gable roof at a shallower pitch to the church. At the connection to the existing building, there is a squat square tower which finishes at the eaves line of the church. Its parapet has subtle ornament created by recessed bands of bricks with protruding bricks at their base. Regular fenestration on the east elevation is divided into four bays by engaged buttresses finished with a pointed top edge just below the eaves line. The windows have a shallow ogee-curved arch and a raked brick sill and contain leadlights. Entrance to the building, and the church, is now provided through the door on the east side of the tower form.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Moonee Valley - Moonee Valley Heritage Study

    Author: Context Pty Ltd, 2015
    Year: 2015
    Grading: Local

    Moonee Valley - City of Moonee Valley Stage 1 Heritage Gap Study

    Author: Context PL
    Year: 2013
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