ST STEPHEN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH (FORMER)

The former Lockwood church has high architectural significance for its historic association with the innovative architect, Robert Alexander Love, who pioneered the introduction of the cavity wall system into Victoria and Australia from America. The building is one of only four examples of churches that Love designed with cavity wall construction, each having a slightly different cavity wall construction design.

The former Lockwood church has high historic significance for its historic association with the Lockwood State School, No 744, also designed by R. A. Love with cavity wall construction system. 

The former Lockwood church is significant in exhibiting good design and aesthetic features as a small rural bi-chrome church designed in a rudimentary Gothic style, surrounded by a stand of mature local gum trees. 

The former Lockwood church is significant as a rare example of a small rural church designed in a highly innovative way with a double brick cavity, by R. A. Love, one of the most interesting provincial architects that worked on the goldfields, who designed some of the largest landmark churches in the region. This is a rare surviving example of one of his smaller rural churches.