NYORA UNITING CHURCH
23 MITCHELL STREET, NYORA, SOUTH GIPPSLAND SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
Non-original alterations and addition are not significant.
Aesthetically, while a simple design it is distinguished from other modest late Interwar timber churches by its incorporation of a full apse, and the range of cladding materials including terracotta roof tiles. (Criterion E)
It has social significance for its strong and enduring associations with the Nyora community through its use as a Methodist and now Uniting Church for over 70 years. (Criterion G)
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NYORA UNITING CHURCH - Physical Description 1
The Nyora Uniting Church is a small Carpenter Gothic building with modest details. Like other examples of this style, it is a timber-framed structure with a gabled roof and windows with lancet arched glazing patterns.
Another element of the design with a medieval reference is the flying (slightly jettied) gable to the front facade, which is clad in timber shingles. This shingled finish and the wall cladding of timber weatherboards below window-sill level, and faux half-timbering of fibro-cement sheets and timber cover straps, is characteristic of simple houses built during the interwar period.
Windows are mostly pairs of rectangular windows (a group of three at the front), each with delicate glazing bars creating a lancet arched shape.
The gabled and enclosed entrance porch, on the east side elevation just back from the front facade, has the same type of cladding as the rest of the building. On its gabled east side it has a pair of the lancet-style windows, and a timber ledge door with high-set window on the north and south faces. There is a third fully ledged timber door at the rear of the west elevation.
While an otherwise modest building, the church has an impressive five-sided apse beneath a steep faceted hipped roof set below the main roof. The apse has single windows with an inscribed lancet arche and diamond pane glazing. In addition, the roof of the entire building is clad in terracotta tiles with metal ridge vents atop the nave. This roof cladding is both characteristic of the interwar, but a more expensive and thus prestigious roof cladding than the typical corrugated iron.
The church is highly intact externally, and retains details such as a louvered vent to the apex of the south gable, and metal air vents at mid-window level.
The site retains a number of mature trees that appear to date from the interwar period, including a Canary Island Palm, a Monterey Pine, and two oak trees (which have been heavily lopped below powerlines).
Heritage Study and Grading
South Gippsland - South Gippsland Heritage Study
Author: David Helms with Trevor Westmore
Year: 2004
Grading: Local
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