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Summary

Description

1845. Church and Hall Group. Neo-Norman. Ashlar. Church

6-bay rectangle with tower projecting from south east bay.

Base course. South front: windows all round-headed with

nook shafts all hoodmoulds. Central round-arched doorway

similarly detailed, flanked by small windows, blind

arcading and 3 large windows above; small louvred window

in gable. Skew with dog tooth ornament. Buttressed aisle

and finial cross to left has 2-light upper window under

hoodmould, and separate gable. 4-stage tower to right:

1st with 2 windows; 2nd with 2-light window; 3rd with

blind intersecting arcading and blind oculus; 4th with

2 storey belfry openings (single window to north face.

Decorative corbel courses below with round-arched

balustrade (removed from north face) and corner pinnacles.

String courses between stages. 6-bay sides with unmoulded

round-headed windows between raised strips and simple

corbels course over. Rear of rubble and slightly advanced

centre bay with 3 windows. Interior: narthex in western

bay, stairs to gallery. Body of church has galleries to

3 sides with thin columns continued up to roof. Area

between columns and side walls spanned by plaster groin

vaults, while central portion spanned from column to column.

Windows leaded. Modern stained glass to north window.

Hall: neo- Norman, 2-storey, with angle buttressed,

ashlar. Door windows round headed with nook shafts.

South front has advanced and gabletted entrance flanked by

pairs of windows. Bands of interlace arcading over windows.

3 windows to 1st floor and small one to gable. Dogtooth

ornamented skews. Side elevations have 2 windows at ground

and band course over. Cill course to 1st floor pair of

coupled windows. Corbelled parapet. Slate roof with stack

to rear gable.

Statement of Special Interest

Built as Free High Church. Cost $5,167 8s 10d.

Ecclesiastical building in use as such.

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