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GLENROY UNITING CHURCH

Other Name

Glenroy Presbyterian Church

Location

70 WHEATSHEAF ROAD,, GLENROY VIC 3046 - Property No 53180

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Glenroy Uniting Church

Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The Glenroy Presbyterian Church (now part of the Uniting Church complex), constructed in 1924, at 70 Wheatsheaf Road, Glenroy. The external form, style, materials, detailing and the intactness of the Church is integral to the significance of this place. The kindergarten addition at the rear of the church and the Canary Island Palm (Phoenix canariensis) also contributes to the significance of the place.

Other buildings on this site are not significant.

How is it significant?
The Glenroy Presbyterian Church is of local historic and social significance to Moreland City.

Why is it significant?
It is historically and socially significant as a place that has played an important role in community life in Glenroy since the 1920s and that provides tangible evidence of the early suburban development of Glenroy in the decade after World War I. It is a representative example of the small suburban churches erected by communities throughout Moreland in the early to mid-twentieth century. The kindergarten hall addition added in the 1920s and extended in the 1940s provides evidence of the practice of the church in providing instruction for young children and also illustrates the developing community in Glenroy. The Canary Island Palm is a typical inter-war planting that is associated with the early development of the church and its grounds during the inter-war period. (Criteria A, D & G)

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