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The St. Paul's Anglican Church complex, 38 High Street, Inverleigh, has significance as one of the few and earliest church building complexes in the Golden Plains Shire, comprising a distinctive and predominantly intact Victorian Early English Gothic styled church building, moderately intact Victorian styled Vicarage and rudimentary Victorian styled timber hall (albeit altered). Initially established on another site in 1858, the existing church was built in 1889 to a design by the Melbourne architect, A.E. Clarke. Stone from the original building was used in the construction of the new church that was largely funded by the generous benefactor and parishioner, Mrs Mary Moriarty. Both the exterior and interior fabric of the church are predominantly intact, including the steeply-pitched gabled roof forms clad in dichromatic slate, crowning pressed metal belfry with louvred timber arcades and bellcast spire, and the distinctive front entrance porch with unusual quatrefoil and trefoil fretwork. The stained glass windows, decorative banding with trefoil motifs above the buttresses on the east and west elevation and the rear gabled chancel and early skillion vestry represent other significant fabric. The importance of the intact interior is borne out in the elaborate timber-lined ceiling with king post timber trusses featuring quatrefoil infill flanking the struts, hard plastered walls, decorative stencilling in the timber beams above the walls, stained glassed windows (including the elaborate stained glass chancel window added between 1937 and 1941) and the original and early furniture (including the timber pews flanking the central aisle, oak lectern, and the timber altar, rails and reredos in the sanctuary). The timber First World War Honour Board is an important addition to the interior, as is the furniture introduced in the chancel during the incumbency of the Rev. R.C. Findlay (1936-42). The original front stone portion of the Vicarage and the rear additions of 1898 (including the projecting bay on the east side) and the main gabled portion of the hall also contribute to the significance of the place. The hipped-roofed stone Vicarage at the rear of the church and the central gabled portion of the adjacent timber hall represent other significant fabric on the site.
How is it Significant?
The St. Paul's Anglican Church complex, Inverleigh, is architecturally, historically and socially significant at a local level.
Why is it Significant?
The St. Paul's Anglican Church complex, Inverleigh, is historically significant (Practice Note Criteria A & H) for its associations with the development and witness of the Anglican Church in the town since the construction of the church in 1889. Numerous clergy and parishioners have played an important role the life of the local Anglican community. Of particular importance are the associati |
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