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Uniting Church, 254 Neerim Road

Other Name

Uniting Church, former Methodist Church

Location

252-254 Neerim Road CARNEGIE, Glen Eira City

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Statement of Significance

The former Methodist church (now Uniting church) complex at 252-54 Neerim Road, Carnegie, consists of the original timber church of 1886, the present brick Arts and Crafts influenced church of 1914, designed by A. Phipps Coles, the timber hall attached to the original church, built during the interwar period and the present brick hall of 1933, designed by J.F. Snell.

The complex has aesthetic, historical and social significance.

Its aesthetic value is derived from the extreme simplicity of the original church and the highly picturesque, eclectic, Arts and Crafts influenced character of the main church and hall.

Its historical value rests in the early date of the original building and the manner in which the remaining buildings are representative of the principal period of settlement of the locality.

The social significance derives from the use of the site as a place of worship since the commencement of the closer settlement of Carnegie from as early as 1886.

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