Queenscliff, VIC - Uniting

History and Architecture:

A brick Gothic Revival church, being opplauded at the time as not representing anyone style. It has an unusual cruciform plan which has been created by the addition of two semi-sexagonal side chapels to the more common basilican plan which is exemplified by the Methodist Church opposite.

Several buttressing piers, with stuccoed pinnacles, have been placed on both the church and the porch and with a central tripartite coloured-glass window, aid in breaking up the large forms of the basic building. The interior is also notable for its timber, vaulted ceiling.

To the rear of the church is an inter-war church hall with a gambrel roof clad in corrugated galvanised steel sheeting. The hall has buttresses with rendered tops, which make reference to a similar detail on the church. The hall has a porch with crenellations and plain timber doors. The two buildings were connected in the post-war period by a small Modernist building.

A Foundation stone reads, " Foundation stone laid by The Hon James Balfour M.L.C. on 24th October 1898". A further Foundation stone reads, " This stone was laid by Miss Annie M. Balfour on 9th August 1924. Minister Rev J.T. Kelly - F.C. Purnell F.R.V.I.A. Architect".