Glen Eira Historical Society
Album - Album page, Carnegie Methodist Church, Neerim Road, Circa 1972
... anthony breslin... wesleyan methodist church breslin gallery anthony breslin 1910's ...
This photograph is part of the Caulfield Historical Album 1972. This album was created in approximately 1972 as part of a project by the Caulfield Historical Society to assist in identifying buildings worthy of preservation. The album is related to a Survey the Caulfield Historical Society developed in collaboration with the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) and Caulfield City Council to identify historic buildings within the City of Caulfield that warranted the protection of a National Trust Classification.
Principal photographer thought to be Trevor Hart, member of Caulfield Historical Society. Most photographs were taken between 1966-1972 with a small number of photographs being older and from unknown sources. All photographs are black and white except where stated, with 386 photographs over 198 pages.
From Victorian Heritage Database citation for HO47 Uniting Church, 254 Neerim Road
https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/42432 (as at 28/10/2020)
The former Methodist church (now Uniting church) complex at 252-54 Neerim Road, Carnegie, consists of the original timber church of 1886, the present brick Arts and Crafts influenced church of 1914, designed by A. Phipps Coles, the timber hall attached to the original church, built during the interwar period and the present brick hall of 1933, designed by J.F. Snell.
From Victorian Heritage Database citation for HO47 Uniting Church, 254 Neerim Road
https://vhd.heritagecouncil.vic.gov.au/places/42432 (as at 28/10/2020)
The complex has aesthetic, historical and social significance.
Its aesthetic value is derived from the extreme simplicity of the original church and the highly picturesque, eclectic, Arts and Crafts influenced character of the main church and hall.
Its historical value rests in the early date of the original building and the manner in which the remaining buildings are representative of the principal period of settlement of the locality.
The social significance derives from the use of the site as a place of worship since the commencement of the closer settlement of Carnegie from as early as 1886.
Page 146 of Photograph Album with four photographs (3 landscape, 1 portrait) of Carnegie Methodist Church, Neerim Road.Handwritten: Carnegie Methodist Church Neerim Road [top right] / 146 [bottom right]trevor hart, neerim road, carnegie methodist church, church, toolambool road, wesleyan methodist church, breslin gallery, anthony breslin, 1910's, american romanesque, spire, half gabled tower, art, gallery, cafe, arched doorways, red brick, uniting church, carnegie, arts and craft style, a p coles, a coles, j f snell, j snell, halls