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St Albans Anglican Church
583 Orrong Road ARMADALE, Stonnington City

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Statement of Significance

This 1898-99 brick town church has architectural significance as Victoria's first church in the Arts and Crafts made designed by the architects Inskip and Butler, who specialised in this style. It is notable for the stained glass in its east window, for its striking diaper patterned brick, interior, and the church's joinery, furniture and fittings including choir stalls, reredos, wrought iron communion rails and encaustic tiles in the chancel.

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    • Physical Description 1

      St Albans Anglican Church - Physical Description 1

      The Church building has been described as 'Victoria's first church in the Arts and Crafts mode and perhaps the first really up, to date church built in the colony for thirty years'.1 The Arts and Crafts influence is exemplified in the use of polychrome brickwork plus coloured render in the upper clerestory. The triple arched windows in each bay section are simple in design with diamond leadlight.

      The building says Prof Lewis, is notable for its striking facade incorporating a large five-light lancet window, flanking octagonal turrets and arch, with brickwork in diaper pattern. The roof ridge remains unbroken from east to west and has a distinctive brick interior. It is notable for the stained glass in its east window, for its striking diaper patterned brick interior, and the church's joinery, furniture and fittings including choir stalls, reredos, wrought iron communion rails and encaustic tiles in the chancel.2

      An addition to the nave on the northern side has an imitation brick wall. On the southern side, the nave has been widened in additions which were executed at the same time as the tower. These alterations are sympathetic to the original design and are the work of Winstan Widdows who's other ecclesiastical designs at this time includes the former Methodist church in Sale (now occupied by the Assembly of God Church) which is an innovative Modem design. To the rear of the church, the church hall is a simple weatherboard building with broad gabled roof and pairs of pointed arched windows. A skillion addition is attached to the vestry at the rear.

      References

      1. Miles Lewis (ed.), Victorian Churches, p. 80.

      2. Lewis. p.80.

      Local Historical Themes

      St Albans Anglican Church - Local Historical Themes

      10.2 Worshiping

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Stonnington - Conservation Review City of Prahran Volume 2: Individual Buildings (A1)

      Author: Context Pty Ltd
      Year: 1993
      Grading: A1

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