Brighton, VIC - Church of Christ (Former)

History and Architecture:

The Church on 20 November 1859 (then known as the Disciple’s Church) held its first public meeting in Brighton in the Old Independent Chapel. Early the following year, the church obtained its own premises in the form of a small building in Male Street, measuring 25 feet square, which was opened on 11 March 1860.

A red brick Free Gothic building with a steep tile-clad roof and a façade incorporating projecting angled bays and a central flat-roofed porch. An example of an inter-war church in the Free Gothic style. It is of note for a distinctive façade that incorporates projecting angled bays and other unusual detailing such as pierced rendered friezes, round windows and turret-like elements capped with rendered domical vaults.

A Brighton Church of Christ was first established in 1859. A Foundation stone in part reads, " Church of Christ Est in Brighton 1859 For the Glory of God and the salvation of Men, That they will all be one, just as you and I are one — as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.  

As of 2020 the Congregation had stopped using the building.