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Christ Church Sunday School
Location26 McIntyre Street HAMILTON, Southern Grampians Shire
File NumberHAMDS #013LevelStage 2 study complete |
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Statement of Significance
SIGNIFICANCE:
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Christ Church Sunday School McIntyre Street The building has had one major and sympathetic extension and is in excellent condition. [i] Foundation stone, dated 10 October 1889. [ii] Garden, Don, Hamilton, p 72. [iii] Ibid. [iv] Hamilton Spectator, 18 December 1912.
Forms part of the Christ Church Co-Cathedral complex. The building was sponsored by Cr Greed, local businessman and undertaker. The architecture of the building continues the Gothic style of the church but in a scholastic and 20th Century manner
This building has local significance in its own right and shares the regional significance of the Christ Church complex. The brick Sunday School, which may have replaced an earlier building, ([i]) has historical significance as part of the Christ Church complex, and for its associations with Andrew Greed (1846-1926), one of Hamilton's more influential citizens, and the Sunday School Superintendent at Christ Church for 42 years. ([ii]) Greed ran one of the best known coachbuilding concerns in the colony and was a Hamilton councillor for 25 years. His brother, John, a carpenter, established a family undertaking business in the town. ([iii]) An Anglican Sunday School was built on the corner of McIntyre Street in 1917. ([iv]) It has architectural interest for its use of early Hamilton brick and rare use of polychrome brick.
Group
Religion
Category
Sunday School