Former Castlemaine Presbyterian Church / now Uniting, Victoria Australia

            The foundation stone for the Uniting Church, Castlemaine was laid by the Premier of Victoria, Sir James Patterson on 22 June 1894 and the building was officially opened on 16 December 1894.
The church was built as a Presbyterian Church by Mr Shillabeer to a design by the Ballarat architect Charles Figgis.

It is a red brick building with cement dressings and a Welsh slate roof.
Picturesquely planned with an asymmetrical front façade, it is situated on one of Castlemaine’s highest points. The assembling room behind the vestries was built in 1990. Stained glass from the former Wesleyan Methodist church in Castlemaine was relocated in this area, including a window depicting a local preacher on the Forest Creek goldfields during the 1850s which had been originally installed in 1935.

Significant elements include the tympanum over the central doorway featuring decorative tilework and a centre panel with the Presbyterian symbol of the burning bush: the front gable with its ogee label mould and two-mullioned window of Early English tracery, surmounted by a St Andrew’s Cross in cement, and the tower terminating in a copper, octagonal broached spire.

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Taken on: April 6, 2017

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