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Methodist Church

Other Name Lutheran Church Location Shaw Street, MORTLAKE VIC 3272 - Property No B3078 File Number B3078 Level Regional

[1/1] B3078 Lutheran Church, Frmr

Statement of Significance

A handsome Early English style church of 1867 designed by Alexander Davidson in bluestone with freestone dressings. It is distinguished by its fine five lancet West window and its slender corner pinnacles, and internally by rather oddly bracketted hammer beam trusses from which carved gargoyles have been recently removed.
Classified: 17/11/1977
Statementof Significance for Shaw Street, Mortlake.
Thisprecinct derives from its group of nineteenth century bluestone buildings which were erected predominantly for civic or commercial use. They reflect an important phase of Mortlake's urban development in the two decades of the 1860s and 1870s. This was a period when the region's rural economy was consolidating and stabilising after the expansion of the squatting and gold eras.
Also of significance is the fact that the integrity of the precinct reflects the availability of public land as a result of a layout found in only three towns in Victoria and representative of a town plan widely used in South Australia, with its separation of town centre and suburbs by an area of public parkland.
Classified: 04/071988.