Uniting Church (Former Presbyterian), 11-13 Carfrae Street, GLENORCHY

The Uniting Church at Glenorchy is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although the gabled porch has been added, the Church still demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian Early English Gothic style. These qualities include the steeply pitched gable roof form, with its white-painted cement rendered parapet coping at one end. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the modest scale, brick wall construction (but not the overpainting), lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, projecting brick buttresses with white painted cement rendered dressings, pointed arched timber framed multi-paned windows, white painted cement rendered window sills, white painted cement rendered drip moulds above the window on the main gable end, narrow eaves, pointed arched double door opening within the porch, and the oculus ventilator within the main gable end.

The Uniting Church at Glenorchy is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the Presbyterian Church at Glenorchy from the second half of the 19th century. Built in c.1865, the Church formed a critical part of the Glenorchy Home Missionary Circuit between 1900 and 1961. In 1977, the Church became a Uniting Church with the Union of the Methodist, Congregationalist and several Presbyterian Churches in Australia.

The Uniting Church at Glenorchy is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by sections of the Glenorchy district for religious reasons.

Overall, the Uniting Church at Glenorchy is of LOCAL significance.

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Religion

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Church