THORNBURY UNITING CHURCH COMPLEX

7-15 ROSSMOYNE STREET,, THORNBURY VIC 3071

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Former Thornbury Presbyterian Church and Hall

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  • Physical Description 1

    THORNBURY UNITING CHURCH COMPLEX - Physical Description 1

    The Thornbury Uniting Church comprises a complex of buildings consisting ofthe 1924 brick church, the earlier church (now the church hall) and the brick kindergarten situated at the rear of the 1924 church.

    The 1924 church is a large inter-war Gothic style brick church with a gable roof of terracotta tiles. This is interrupted in its southern facade by brick pilasters with concrete finials flanking the roof ridge, the position of which is echoed along the length of the roof by two rows of ventilators, and each gable end is surmounted by a shallow concrete capped parapet wall which is stepped into either side. A large decorated plaque is affixed at the top of the gable above a large gothic window with reticulated bar tracery that is flanked by two trefoil-headed lancet windows. All of these contain lead-lighting and have concrete hoods, whilst a decorative concrete band also runs along the line formed by the aprons of the two slightly lower smaller windows. The lower courses of the wall, which are slightly stepped out, are topped with a string course of moulded bricks.

    Along the sides of the building are pairs of gothic leadlight windows, each with a decorative concrete hood, interspersed with brick buttresses with concrete cappings. The building has two entrances to either side of its southern end. That on the eastern side is a simple wooden door in a gothic aperture, whilst that on the western side is accessed through a large brick entrance porch attached to this side of the building. This is entered through four-centred doorways to the north and south which are each approached via concrete stairs with a stepped brick balustrades and metal hand rails. The porch is surmounted by a high concrete parapet decorated with recessed quatrefoil mouldings.

    The 1935 brick kindergarten (Sunday School) hall is attached to the rear of the church. This is a large brick building with a hipped metal roof with Health Department ventilators.

    Immediately to the west of the church, but set slightly back from the street, is the 1912 weatherboard church hall which has a metal gabled roof. This building has a large gabled bay projecting to the south and two smaller bays to the east and west at its northern end, probably representing the extensions of 1914, and a later toilet block is appended to its western side. The building is accessed via a small wooden stair and a single door on the east side of the southern bay, and it has multi-light sash windows in gothic frames on all sides. The church being currently used by the Aboriginal Evangelical Fellowship, this building now accommodates the Mina Jalku Centre and the Maya Living Free Association. It has been recently extended to the east, apparently to provide a connection with the kindergarten hall to the rear of the church.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Darebin - Darebin Heritage Study

    Author: Context P/L
    Year: 2011
    Grading: Local

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