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MOONEE VALLEY UNITING CHURCH & HALL
23 & 23A GLADSTONE STREET, MOONEE PONDS, MOONEE VALLEY CITY
Ascot Vale Estate

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Essendon Conservation Study 1985
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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The former Wesleyan Church and Hall at 23 & 23A Gladstone Street, Moonee Ponds are significant. The following buildings and features contribute to the signifcance of the place:

- The original form, detailings, materials, and setting of the church, including its interior,and hall.
- The relatively high integrity of the exterior andinterior of the church, and the exterior of the hall.
- The visual relationship between the church and hall.
- The view of the church from Puckle Street down Pratt Street.

How is it significant?
The former Wesleyan Church & Hall is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moonee Valley.

Why is it significant?
Historically and socially, the church is important as an early public building within Moonee Ponds. The church and its hall are expressive of the growth of Moonee Ponds in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and as a place that has been a focus of community life for over 100 years. (Criteria A & G)

Architecturally, the church is a highly successful combination of traditional church architectural forms that may be experienced both internally and externally, and is notable for itsimpressive spire. Aesthetically the church, which is set axially to aview corridor,and the former hall adjacent form a landmark complex, which contributes to the historic character of the surrounding residential heritage precinct. (Criteria D & E)

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    • Physical Description 1

      MOONEE VALLEY UNITING CHURCH & HALL - Physical Description 1

      A red brick and stucco church in the Gothic revival manner which is distinguished by its exceptionally tall, slated spire and the row of gabled side chapels at the west and east elevations. Composed successfully as an integration of gabled, differently sized forms which are also repeated, in details such as roof vents and parapet stepping. Unusual engaged columns, at the nave gable, support bartizan towers which are also placed over angle buttresses to the tower. Internally, lacquered lining boards, by their linear patterns, highlight the interlocking side-chapels and nave forms and provide a richness of colour. A pipe organ is set in the apse.

      Externally, generally original except for the removal of the front fence (presumed picket), the addition of concrete paving, and the intrusive placsment of a large illuminated cross-over the bell-tower vent. Trim colours have changed. The former Church Hall is at one side.It isa brick gabled fronted hall.

      Set axially to Pratt Street, also designed to be viewed in three dimensions, via oblique views from the west. Elements of the surrounding residential area are contemporary with the church. (Refer Ascot Vale Estate, Conservation Areas).

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Moonee Valley - Essendon Conservation Study

      Author: Graeme Butler
      Year: 1985
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