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FORMER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH

Location

17 BLACK STREET BRIGHTON, BAYSIDE CITY

File Number

13/007973-02

Level

Registered

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Statement of Significance

The Former Congregational Church, Black Street, Brighton was constructed in 1875 to the design of architect Charles Webb. The church was constructed by builder jams Bonham on the site of a previous timber church.

The building is tuckpointed using black and cream bricks with a minimum of reds.

The exterior is intact except for the vestry addition at the rear.

The interior of the buildings contains a sloping timber floor, timber screens and pews and a central pulpit. The ceiling is exposed varnished pine lining supported by king post trusses. The walls are painted render with a stencilled dado border and paint finished mouldings to windows and door openings.

The church contains an intact Fincham organ.

The building is a substantially intact structure with finely executed detailing and is one of a small number of intact, extant Webb churches in Melbourne. The entry is marked by a memorial lych-gate constructed in 1954 and a large Moreton Bay fig tree thought to have been grown from seedlings supplied by the horticulturalist Dr Ferdinand von Mueller.

[Source: Report to the Minister]

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