Holy Family Catholic Church

The Holy Family Catholic Church building at 101 Hitchcock Avenue is aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of the interwar Carpenter Gothic style. These qualities include the crowstepped parapetted gable roof, with a minor parapetted gable porch projecting to the side north. Other intact qualities include the horizontal weatherboard wall cladding, timber framed, multipaned round arched windows and the triple roundarched lancet window with worked consoles, round arched timber porch door, gable oculus ventilator and the crosses at the apex of the major and minor gables. The substantial cypress trees contribute to the significance of the place. The Church building also makes a substantial contribution to the single storey, pitched roof streetscape. The Holy Family Catholic Church building at 101 Hitchcock Avenue is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the Catholic Church in Barwon Heads, together with the Flinders Estate subdivision of 1887 and the McArthur Estate subdivision of 1916. The Church building is also associated with the architect, Cyril Kelly, and the builder, B. Murphy. The Holy Family Catholic Church building at 101 Hitchcock Avenue is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by the Barwon Heads community for religious reasons. Overall, the Holy Family Catholic Church building at 101 Hitchcock Avenue is of LOCAL significance. It is highly recommended that a Conservation Management Plan be carried out on the property.

References

1. Plan of the Flinders Estate, Barwon Heads, 1887, Geelong Historical Records Centre. 2. Barwon Heads Estate Company Limited subdivision plan, 30 March, 1891, Geelong Historical Records Centre. 3. The McArthur Estate subdivision plan, December, 1916, Geelong Historical Records Centre. 4. Geelong Advertiser, 17 September, 1938, 3 December, 1938, 2 January, 1939, 7 January, 1939. 5. J. Pescott, South Barwon 18571985, City of South Barwon, Belmont, 1985. 6. Drainage Plans and Inspectors Reports, Barwon Heads Sewerage Authority, 1978, Barwon Water Profis system. References

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Religion

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Church