St George's Anglican Church

Statement of Significance

The Church has a significance for its architectural and technical accomplishment in its well preserved amenity of style and materials. It has historical significance for its association with its designer the Perth architect J. Herbert Eales who designed mane small country town buildings in and arts and crafts manner, and for its local esteem. The picturesque massing of the church has environmental importance for its contribution to the townscape of Francis st.

Physical Description

The building consists of an aisle-less hall-like nave with a timber lines and painted wagonette ceiling. It has a sanctuary with a separate roof and raised floor, a vestry to one side of the sanctuary and an open, half-timbered entrance porch on the main axis. The nave has unusual truncated corners that are reflected in the main roof form.
External walls are red-ochred and tuckpointed brickwork with stucco dressings. The bricks are aid to be of local manufacture. Roofing is unpainted corrugated iron that has acquired a patina of Pindan dust characteristic of Carnarvon and other north-west towns. The internal walls are rendered and painted and have a painted timber lined dado. The floor is polished timber. The altar screen communion rail and furniture of carved and polished jarrah are 1940’s origin but are in keeping with the style of the church. Nave windows have very simple leadlights that have suffered recent damage. The three smaller lancets in the sanctuary gable are fine stained glass and also damaged.
Apart from the damaged windows, some rising and falling damp probably aggravated by gutter and downpipe problems, the building appears to be in goof, and near-original condition. A fleche bell tower once existed in the slope of the main hip roof over the front door but has disappeared. The church appears to follow the street alignment rather than the orthodox east-west-orientation.

History

Assessment 1989

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