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St. John's Roman Catholic Church, 19 Church Road, STUART MILL
Location19 Church Road STUART MILL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE LevelRecommended for Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
The St. John's Roman Catholic Church, 19 Church Road, Stuart Mill, has significance as a legacy of the development of the Catholic Church in Stuart Mill in 1912, and as a highly intact example of a rural Federation Early English Gothic style. The building appears to be in good condition. The St. John's Roman Catholic Church at Stuart Mill is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of a rural Federation Early English Gothic style. These qualities include the steeply pitched and parapeted gable roof forms, including the gables that project at the sides, together with the pointed arched windows and door openings, and the cement dressings surrounding these openings. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the face red brick wall construction, corrugated profile sheet metal roof cladding, modest eaves with exposed timber rafters, projecting brick and cement buttresses, crosses that surmount the apexes of the gables, lancet openings in the gable ends, and the cement dressings to the gable copings and the flat corners to the gable ends. The St. John's Roman Catholic Church at Stuart Mill is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the Roman Catholic Church at Stuart Mill from 1912. The St. John's Roman Catholic Church at Stuart Mill is socially significant at a LOCAL level.It is still recognised by some sections of the local community for religious reasons. Overall, St. John's Roman Catholic Church at Stuart Mill is of LOCAL significance.
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Religion
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Church