OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS CATHOLIC CHURCH

Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church including the 1917 fabric and interior is significant. Later alterations such as the memorial windows are also significant. The bell and tower, and columnar cypress trees are included. The toilet block is not significant. 

Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church is locally significant to the City of Greater Bendigo. 

Our Lady Help of Christians Catholic Church is of historical significance for its role in the large Kilmore Mission created by the Bishop of Melbourne, James Alipius Goold in 1849. Our Lady Help of Christians is tangible evidence for the continuing development of the Heathcote parish throughout the later nineteenth century, finally becoming second in importance to the cathedral city of Bendigo. Criterion A

The English-made ship's bell by J.Warner and Sons is historically significant as a link with the previous Catholic church in Heathcote. Criterion A

Our Lady Help of Christians is aesthetically significant for its demonstration of the principal elements of the Neo-Romanesque style including the uses of red brick and stucco and nested concentric arched windows. The application of concrete technology to the design of window is of note. The interior contains high quality joinery in the gallery, hammerbeam trusses, ecclesiastical furniture and fitments. The stained glass memorial windows designed by William Weildon of Brooks Robinson are of particular interest. The cypress trees are aesthetically significant by contributing to he setting of the church. Criterion D

Our Lady Help of Christians is of social significance for the Heathcote community as a place of continuous worship for over 90 years. Criterion G