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The former Great Western Uniting Church building and hall, 60 Brunel Streets, Great Western, makes a significant architectural and cultural contribution to the local Great Western township. The brick former Wesleyan Methodist church was erected in 1880 to the design of Ararat architect W.M.Thomas. It replaced an earlier timber church, erected in 1862, which then became the Sunday School Hall. When this building was destroyed by a grass fire in 1955 the present weatherboard clad structure, the former Rhymney School No. 1600, was added to the rear of the church. The present church building, and the building that it replaced, have their origins in the early establishment of the Wesleyan Methodist faith in the Great Western goldfields in 1858 when services were held in rudimentary canvas tent structures.
The former Uniting Church building, 60 Brunel Street, Great Western, is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a rudimentary Victorian Gothic Revival style. These qualities include the steeply pitched gable roof form with a projecting minor porch gable at the front. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, unpainted brick wall construction, side buttresses, pointed double door opening with vertical boarded doors (and subtly decorated cast iron hinges), lancet windows, turned timber finials, oculus window, pointed windows with diamond leadlights, and the dichromatic brick construction and decoration (cream brick stringcourses, quoinwork and end faces to the buttresses). The white painted brickwork on the main gable appears to represent later work.
Although relocated, the former Uniting Church Hall is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an Education Department of Victoria, 60-type one-roomed 19th century school building. These qualities include the steeply pitched gable roof form (situated perpendicular to the Church building), lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding and horizontal weatherboard wall cladding. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the three, equally spaced, single, timber framed, twelve paned, double hung windows along one longitudinal side and a centrally located brick chimney on the other, turned timber finials and gable ventilators, timber framed, twelve paned, double hung windows with four paned hopper sashes above arranged in a bank of three (one gable end), pair of double hung windows (other gable end), four panelled timber door, and evidence of the previous porch gable above the doorway. The mature cypress, pine and other trees - and particularly the symmetrically arranged Italian cypresses - also contribute to the significance of the place.
The former Great Western Uniting Church building and hall, 60 |
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