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| | A49-61 CURZON STREET and 2-22 ELM STREET and 579-589 QUEENSBERRY STREET, North Melbourne | | Distance: | 1.8 km to CBD; 656 meters to North Melbourne Station [Transport] |
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| Map | Street view | Nearby property price | | Planning History: | | | Registered as Victorian heritage | Last updated on - October 27, 1999
What is significant?
The North Melbourne Presbyterian Church was founded in 1854, the opening services being held on 29 October. On this land an iron school room donated by the denominational schools board was erected in 1855. The United Presbyterian Church of Victoria was formed in 1859 from three separate Presbyterian movements. Shortly after the foundation stone of a new bluestone church was laid and worship moved there from the adjacent iron building in November 1859, when the church was completed. The designer for the church was John Donaldson and it was built by Thomas Cattanach & Co. In 1867 tenders were called for a manse and it was constructed in 1868. During the 1870s the bluestone church was found to be too small and it was resolved to build a new one with a spire. Competitive designs were called and that of architect Evander McIver was chosen from the thirteen submitted. Contractor James Thurgood?s tender was accepted and the old church was pulled down to make way for the present building. The new church was completed in 1879. At this time the Church Hall was built behind the church out of the materials from the old church. Half of the original land grant was sold to offset some of the debts of the congregation and cottages were also built on Queensberry Street to provide revenue from their rental. Five cottages remain of eight, which were constructed on the Union Memorial Church site. Four of the cottages were constructed in 1911, designed by Inskip and Kemp and built by Messrs F&W Abery and a further four were constructed by builders Mather and Lydster to the same design in 1915 and adjoining the earlier cottages. The church is a di-chrome brick building in the Gothic revival style. It has an asymmetrically placed brick tower and stuccoed spire. Internally the church has a gallery supported on cast iron columns with decorative cast iron panel railing. Local craftsmen Ferguson and Urie made the stained glass windows. The church hall is built out of the bluestone and rubble of the old 1859 church. It is also in the Gothic Revival style and has an attached porch and bellcote. Stucco has been applied since its reconstruction. It has large decorative exposed timber trusses on the interior. The manse is a two-storey stuccoed brick residence with a hipped slate roof and corniced chimneys. The parsonage is a polychrome brick, single storey double-fronted cottage in a typical asymmetrical, gabled ecclesiastical mode. Decorative details include fretted bargeboards and a cast iron verandah. The cottages are designed in a low-key Federation Queen Anne style. They are redbrick and originally had four rooms. The front verandahs, which face directly onto the street, have timber fretwork and railing.
How is it significant?
The Union Memorial Church Complex is of historical, social, architectural and aesthetic significance to the State of Vic |
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