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Breakwater Baptist Manse

Location

45 Tanner Street, BREAKWATER VIC 3219 - Property No 218430

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

B Listed - Regional Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNFICANCE

The Breakwater Baptist manse was erected of regular coursed squared basalt in c 1869 as an outstation for the Aberdeen Street Baptist Church in Geelong and at the same time as the adjacent Sabbath School and Church was constructed. This rectangular plan simple Italianate style structure, virtually unadorned, with a hipped roof symmetrical plan and 6 pane Georgian fenestration, was built at a time when the Breakwater area was being rapidly developed as the fellmongery centre in Western Victoria and the hub of Geelong's riverside industries.

References

Aberdeen Street Baptist Church Minute Books

Breakwater Baptist Church Minute Books

Brown, P.L., "Geelong the Essential Streams" in Historic Places of Australia. Volume 1, Cassell, Melbourne 1978, p. 74 illustration.

Group

Religion

Category

Presbytery/Rectory/ Vicarage/Manse