NYORA UNITING CHURCH

The Nyora Uniting (former Methodist) Church designed by R.G. Wilson and opened on 18 January 1937, at 23 Mitchell Street, Nyora, is significant. It is a small Carpenter Gothic building with modest detailing. Like other examples of this style, it is a timber-framed structure with a gabled roof. There is a flying (slightly jettied) gable to the front facade, which is clad in timber shingles. The roof is clad in terracotta tiles, with metal ridge vents atop the nave and there is a louvred vent to the apex of the South gable, and metal air vents at mid-window level. The church has a shingled finish with walls cladded of timber weatherboards below window-sill height, and faux half-timbered of fibro-cement sheets and timber cover straps. There is an impressive five-sided apse beneath a steep faceted hipped roof, set below the main roof. The apse has single windows with an inscribed lancet arch and diamond pane glazing. There is a gabled, and enclosed, entrance porch, on the East elevation, has the same type of cladding as the rest of the building, which includes a pair of lancet-style windows and a timber ledge door with high-set window to the North and South faces. The rest of the building has rectangular windows, with a group of three at the front, with delicate glazing bars creating a lancet arched shape and timber ledge doors. 
Non-original alterations and addition are not significant.

The Nyora Uniting (former Methodist) Church is of local historic, aesthetic and social significance to the South Gippsland Shire.

Historically, it is associated with the development of Nyora in the interwar period after it became a railway junction following the opening of the railway to Wonthaggi in 1910. This church, which replaced the original church, was the culmination of 11 years of planning by the local church trust. (Criterion A) 
Aesthetically, while a simple design it is distinguished from other modest late Interwar timber churches by its incorporation of a full apse, and the range of cladding materials including terracotta roof tiles. (Criterion E) 
It has social significance for its strong and enduring associations with the Nyora community through its use as a Methodist and now Uniting Church for over 70 years. (Criterion G)