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St Albans Uniting Church

Location

276 Wilsons Road, ST ALBANS PARK VIC 3219 - Property No 263491

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

B Listed - Regional Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The St Albans Uniting Church, was erected in 1869 for the local Wesleyan Methodist Church Congregation and intended to replace three smaller and primitive churches of that denomination in the vicinity of St Albans.

This church, erected of squared regular coursed basalt with limestone dressing as a rectangular plan buttressed hall church with asymmetrically planned square tower and spire is in the then popular eclectically derived Victorian gothic Revival mode. Although not documented, the design is characteristic of prolific ecclesiastical architect JL Shaw.

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register

Australian Heritage Commission Register of the National Estate

REFERENCES

St Albans Methodist Church and Sunday School - Centenary Booklet, 1858-1958.

Henry Thacker Printer, Geelong 1958

Geelong Advertiser -

22 May 1869, Tenders

8 September, 1869, Tenders for Plaster Work.

18 March 1954 p.4 Article about Centenary Celebrations including History.

8 November 1869 p2 & 3. Description of opening ceremony and church building

Willingham Index.

Group

Religion

Category

Church