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Seventh Day Adventist Church, 6 Clifton Avenue , STAWELL
Location6 Clifton Avenue STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The Seventh Day Adventist Church, 6 Clifton Avenue, Stawell, has significance as the centre of the local Seventh Day Adventist Church. Constructed in approximately 1908, the building has experienced a number of additions, particularly between 1955 and 1958, but the original form and some of the original detailing remain. Although altered, the Seventh Day Adventist Church is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates some design qualities of a rudimentary Federation Gothic style. These qualities include the simple steeply pitched gable roof form, together with a minor porchgable at one end. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron (painted green), two tubular galvanised iron ventilation stacks, turned timber finial forming a decorative feature on one gable end, vertically boarded porch door and the timber framed windows with pointed timber Gothic heads. The Seventh Day Adventist Church is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with development of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Stawell from 1910. The Seventh Day Adventist Church is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and highly valued by the Stawell community for religious reasons. Overall, the Seventh Day Adventist Church is of LOCAL significance.
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Religion
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Church