ST ANDREW'S UNITING CHURCH

Coleraine-Balmoral Road BALMORAL, Southern Grampians Shire

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    ST ANDREW'S UNITING CHURCH - Physical Conditions

    The whole of the building is in excellent condition.

    Physical Description 1

    ST ANDREW'S UNITING CHURCH - Physical Description 1

    A simple stone and render church, St Andrew's is built in the Gothic revival style, of three bays with a vestry. The walls are built of local sandstone, deeply stained by iron, in coursed random rubble. The side windows are of interest being square-headed within Gothic arches. Buttresses divide the bays. The main roof of corrugated iron, painted red, is pitched at 60º, as is the vestry roof.
    
    The vestry has a chimney and fireplace with a timber mantle, an unusual feature for most churches, and three small lancet windows, different from the side windows. It is said that a belfry on the front gable was removed, because the vibration from the bell caused cracking, and this was replaced by the present cement finial.
    
    There is a timber porch or narthex within the body of the church with a door leading to either aisle. The WW1 memorial of carved timber, formerly located on the end wall of the nave has been relocated to the porch. The interior of the church is little altered with the pulpit, elders' chairs, pews and memorials all surviving. The ceiling features exposed scissor trusses with tongue-in-groove pine lining boards. The windows are glazed in diamond patterned panes, with a simple lozenge design in pale yellow glass. A triple lancet window in the east wall above the entrance door with diamond patterned panes contains modern, coloured glass motifs, including the Uniting Church symbol.
    
    In the altar area, the font of carved and turned oak bears a brass plaque of appreciation to Mr J A Walter, Secretary and Treasurer of the Federal Board for 25 years. The altar table is made of carved oak, and is dedicated to John Philip of Englefield, who died 1916, and his son Lieut. Edgar Philip, killed in action, Flanders 1917. To the west of the altar are two items, a boxed pulpit and an old organ, the latter donated by William Officer of Mt Talbot. The wooden pews are finished with a grained pattern, many of them are numbered, and all bear a distinctive fleur-de-lis termination. An unsympathetic dado of imitation woodgrain panelling has been added, probably in the 1970s.
    
    The church contains three commemorative plaques. The first is to Urquhart Douglas Haig Horne of Englefield, who died in 1943, a casualty of World War 2. The second plaque is to James Gordon Robertson of Kongbool, b. Mt Mitchell 10/8/1859, d Melbourne 1/9/1929. The third plaque is dedicated to James Henderson, Minister 1864-1907, b 1829, d 1922.
    
    The interior of the vestry, entered by a Gothic ledged door, is not altered at all.
    
    The hall on the west side of the church was built in the twentieth century, and has been linked to the church by a concrete block corridor. A bronze bell on a steel stand is located in the grounds near the entrance of the church. The bell was cast at the Clarke Browne foundry in Tasmania, and donated to the church by Sir Charles Officer of Mt Talbot Station.

    Historical Australian Themes

    ST ANDREW'S UNITING CHURCH - Historical Australian Themes

    Theme 8 Developing Australia's cultural life
    8.6 Worshipping
    8.6.1 Worshipping together
    8.6.3 Founding Australian religious institutions
    8.6.4 Making places for worship

    Usage/Former Usage

    ST ANDREW'S UNITING CHURCH - Usage/Former Usage

    Church
    Hall

    Integrity

    ST ANDREW'S UNITING CHURCH - Integrity

    Excellent degree of integrity externally and high degree of interity internally.

    Physical Description 2

    ST ANDREW'S UNITING CHURCH - Physical Description 2

    include the architect [if known], early ministers, names on memorials, etc.
    Ministers of the Balmoral-Harrow Charge:
    1860-64 Rev James Treadwell
    1864-1907 Rev. James Henderson
    1908-11 Rev. S D Hood
    1912-23 Rev. J I King
    1923-25 Rev. J B McKissock
    1925-26 Rev. G L Johnson
    1926-30 Rev. Finley Fraser
    1930-65 Rev. J H Bates
    1966-71 Rev. K C W Beckett
    1972- Rev. L Wood

    Physical Description 3

    ST ANDREW'S UNITING CHURCH - Physical Description 3

    Presbyterian Church Reserve

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Southern Grampians - Southern Grampians Shire Heritage Study

    Author: Timothy Hubbard P/L, Annabel Neylon
    Year: 2002
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