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ESSENDON BAPTIST CHURCH
Location124 BUCKLEY STREET, ESSENDON, MOONEE VALLEY CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant? The recent extension to the west side of the church is not of significance.
How is it significant?
Why is it significant? It is architecturally significant as a representative example of the
application of the Early English Gothic style to a typical early
20th-century church, with a dominant gable form, articulated front
porches with a lobby in between, and the use of lancet windows to the
ground floor and set within a blind pointed arch on the front gable.
The 1939 Sunday School at the rear of the church exhibits the
simplified forms of the late interwar era, paired with subtle
decoration in brick including the ogee-arched windows and brick
detailing to the simplified tower element. (Criterion D)
Essendon Baptist Church and Sunday School at 124 Buckley Street,
Essendon, is significant. The red brick church was designed by
architect JH Parr in 1915 in a simplified Early English Gothic style.
A brick Sunday School was built as an addition to the rear of the
church in 1938-39, to a design by LE Warner Architects.
Essendon Baptist Church is of local historical, social and
architectural significance to the City of Moonee Ponds.
It is historically and socially significant as the centre of
Baptist worship in the area since 1890 (on this site since 1915).
(Criteria A & G)
Group
Religion
Category
Church