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Former St Lukes Anglican Church & Organ

Other Name Hungarian Reformed Church Location 121 St Georges Road, FITZROY NORTH VIC 3068 - Property No B2889 File Number B2889 Level Local

[1/1] B2889 Hungarian Reformed

Statement of Significance

Church:
An imposing church of bluestone with brick dressings designed by Crouch & Wilson with an idiosyncratic and not wholly successful composition in which a somewhat too squat mansarded tower on one side of the facade seeks to balance a much more powerful tower on the other. The pleasing elements of the design are the taller tower with its unusual paired oculi and bellcast spier clad in metal and the series of transverse gables roofing the aisles. The building contains an intact pipe organ built by Willilam Anderson and installed about 1890.
Classified 13/05/1976

Organ:
A two-manual organ of 11 stops built by William Anderson and installed at North Fitzroy in 1890 from Holy Trinity Church, Kensington. Apart from cosmetic alterations to the casework, the instrument remains intact and retains its original action, pipework and tonal scheme and is a distinctive example of its builder's smaller work comparable with the instrument in St Joseph's, South Yarra. Of particular interest is a smaller dummy case facing into the church which appears to come from a Regency barrel organ and would date from before 1850.
Classified Regional significence 19/08/1992