SOUTH CAMBERWELL GOSPEL HALL, FORMERLY SOUTH CAMBERWELL METHODIST CHURCH

The polygonal plan form, brick church, formerly known as South Camberwell Methodist Church (1930), Camberwell, is significant. Designed by architect Samuel Charles Brittingham, it is currently in use as the South Camberwell Uniting Church.

The 1966 church hall is Non-Contributory.

How is it significant?

The former South Camberwell Methodist Church is of local historical, aesthetic, architectural and socially significance to the City of Boroondara.

Why is it significant?

The former South Camberwell Methodist Church is of local historical and social significance. It is associated with the Methodist Church established on the site in 1915 and represents the growth and development of the Church across the twentieth century. The church is still in use today and demonstrates the ongoing use of the site for ecclesiastical purposes. (Criteria A and G)

South Camberwell Methodist Church is of aesthetic/architectural significance as a highly intact version of the Interwar Gothic style and polygonal church plan form, designed by noted architect Samuel Charles Brittingham. The building features a well resolved and finely detailed design that belongs stylistically to the Gothic Revival popularised in the interwar period for ecclesiastical buildings. The building is finely detailed with tracery windows, angled bays, and simply decorated vestibule parapet capping are of particular note. The church with its polygon plan form is distinctive within the municipally for the inclusion of a tower and spire, and may be the only church of this plan to do so in Boroondara (Criteria D, E and H).

Group

Religion

Category

Church