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Salvation Army Community Centre (former St. Patrick's Church), 14 Queens Avenue, ST ARNAUD

Other Name

St. Patrick's Church

Location

14 Queens Avenue ST ARNAUD, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

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SD 209a - Salvation Army
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SD 209b - Undated photograph

Statement of Significance

Although no longer functioning as a Catholic Church, the former St. Patrick's Catholic Church building, 14 Queens Avenue, St. Arnaud, is significant as a substantially intact example of a Victorian Early English Gothic styled brick Church in rural Victoria. Built in 1875, the building serviced the St. Arnaud Catholic community until the construction of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in 1906. The building is now owned by the Salvation Army.

The former St. Patrick's Catholic Church is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian Early English Gothic style. These qualities include the steeply pitched and parapeted gable roof form, together with the central, steeply pitched gables at the ends which reflect the early gable porch (rear, McMahon Street end) and the original chancel (Queen Street end). Other intact qualities include the oculus windows decorated with two courses of cream brick voussoirs; cream brick parapet capping and corbel patterning in the gable ends; cream brick window quoinwork; early pointed windows; simple brick buttresses; metal crosses at the apex of the McMahon Street gables, and the bluestone window sills and plinths.

The former St. Patrick's Catholic Church is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the Catholic Church in St. Arnaud from 1875 until the 1950s.

The former St. Patrick's Catholic Church is socially significant at a LOCAL level. Although no longer functioning as a Church building, it is still recognised by sections of the St. Arnaud community for its past religious purpose.

Overall, the former St. Patrick's Catholic Church is of LOCAL significance.

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