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Former Wesleyan Methodist Church

Location

272 Torquay Road, GROVEDALE VIC 3216 - Property No 240953

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

C Listed - Local Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Wesley Methodist Church at Grovedale (Germantown) was erected in 1869 to Colonial Georgian Style design by architect/surveyor R. S. Tuffs. This simple rectangular plan church or squared coursed basalt with freestone quoins and architrav3s is derived from architectural pattern book sources. The church, built in a distinctive secular style appropriate to the Weslyan Methodist creed, has served the Grovedale farming community for over 100 years.

RECOMMENDATION: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register

REFERENCES

National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No. 2678. 'Grovedale Methodist Church Centenary'. Notes on the History of the building of the church, 1969.

Geelong Register - 31st May, 1869 - Description of opening of church.

Geelong Advertiser - 25th January, 1869, 26th March, 1869.

Winter, J & Fry L - Germantown Weslyan Church 1853 to Grovedale Uniting Church 1978, Produced for 125th anniversary of Sunday School 1978.

Thomas, RH - 'Victorian Wesleyan, Methodist Churches Index 1836-1902', History Research Essay, Department of Architecture, University of Melbourne. 1970, pp 58. 167

Group

Religion

Category

Church