ST THOMAS' ANGLICAN CHURCH & PARISH HALL

St. Thomas' Anglican Church designed by Smith & Johnson and constructed in two stages in 1892 and 1910, and the Parish Hall constructed in 1932, at 7 Dutton Street, Toora, are significant. St Thomas' is a simple two bay Victorian Gothic Revival church with a steeply pitched roof and gabled porch. The church building features lancet windows with a gothic window at projecting gable end. The church also has stepped buttresses and a foundation stone to the right of the porch. The parish hall of 1932 is a simple gabled building with walls lined in battened cement sheet with a weatherboard dado. 
Non-original alterations and additions, other than those specified above, are not significant.

St. Thomas' Anglican Church and Parish Hall is of local historic, aesthetic and social significance to South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, St. Thomas' is the oldest Anglican church in the South Gippsland Shire and is associated with the foundation and establishment of the Church of England in Gippsland. As a foundation church it assisted with the establishment of churches that followed at Hedley and Welshpool. It is also one of the oldest buildings in Toora and demonstrates the early development of the town. The Parish Hall is associated with improvements made in time for the 40th anniversary celebrations of the church and the stages of building demonstrate the growth of both the Anglican Church community and Toora in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Criterion A) 
Aesthetically, the church is a simple Victorian Gothic Church with typical form and details including the steeply pitched roof, buttressed walls, and lancet windows and is of note as the only early church within the South Gippsland Shire constructed of brick. It is an historic landmark within Toora. (Criteria B & E) 
It has social significance for its strong and enduring associations with the Toora community through its use as an Anglican Church and parish centre for over 120 years. (Criterion G)