Stuart Mill Uniting Church, 43 Church Road, STUART MILL

The Stuart Mill Uniting Church is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the late Victorian Gothic Revival style. These qualities include the steeply pitched gable roof form, together with the central, minor porch gable that projects at the front. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the face brick wall construction, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, modest eaves, decorative gable infill (timber battening and stuccoed panelling), timber finials on the gable ends, pointed arched timber framed windows, cement rendered dressings, pointed arched timber framed vertically boarded timber double doors, and the brick buttresses with rendered dressings.

The Stuart Mill Uniting Church is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the Wesleyan and later Methodist and Uniting Churches from 1894. The Church also has associations with some early locals who helped fund the building, notably the Swanton family. The Church has further associations with the Melbourne architect, Beverley Ussher, and with the Melbourne contractor, Mr. Oliver.

The Stuart Mill Uniting Church is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by the Stuart Mill community for religious reasons.

Overall, the Stuart Mill Uniting Church is of LOCAL significance.

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Religion

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Church