The Side Elevation of the Pleasant Street Wesleyan Methodist Church - Pleasant Street, Ballarat
The Pleasant Street Wesleyan Methodist Church, built in Ballarat's Pleasant Street, was completed in 1867 for the princely sum of £1700.00 The price and the Methodist Church's grandeur shows how the Wesleyan Methodist congregation had grown in both size and wealth as Ballarat's gold rush grew.
The Pleasant Street Wesleyan Methodist Church was designed by local architect J. A. Doane and has been built in Victorian Academic Gothic style. Built of red brick with a tiled roof, the church has clear architectural elements associated with the Gothic style including flying buttresses that define structural bays, a steeply pitched roof, a parapeted gable and narrow windows. It is an almost exact replica of the second Wesleyan Methodist Church, built in Neil Street in the Ballarat suburb of Soldier's Hill, and incidentally was also completed in 1867. In 1886, additions for choir purposes were made to the church, after designs by prolific Ballarat architect Charles Douglas Figgis, who also designed the adjoining Victorian Romanesque Sunday School.
Gothic architecture was perceived by the pious Victorians as an expression of religious, and therefore, moral values. Its revival was thus seen as virtuous and equated with moral revival. For this reason an ecclesiastical character was predominant.
Charles Douglas Figgis (1849 - 1895) also designed the Ballarat Presbyterian church, the former Ballarat Congregational Church, the former Ballarat Mining Exchange and the Geelong Club amongst many other buildings during his short life.
The Side Elevation of the Pleasant Street Wesleyan Methodist Church - Pleasant Street, Ballarat
The Pleasant Street Wesleyan Methodist Church, built in Ballarat's Pleasant Street, was completed in 1867 for the princely sum of £1700.00 The price and the Methodist Church's grandeur shows how the Wesleyan Methodist congregation had grown in both size and wealth as Ballarat's gold rush grew.
The Pleasant Street Wesleyan Methodist Church was designed by local architect J. A. Doane and has been built in Victorian Academic Gothic style. Built of red brick with a tiled roof, the church has clear architectural elements associated with the Gothic style including flying buttresses that define structural bays, a steeply pitched roof, a parapeted gable and narrow windows. It is an almost exact replica of the second Wesleyan Methodist Church, built in Neil Street in the Ballarat suburb of Soldier's Hill, and incidentally was also completed in 1867. In 1886, additions for choir purposes were made to the church, after designs by prolific Ballarat architect Charles Douglas Figgis, who also designed the adjoining Victorian Romanesque Sunday School.
Gothic architecture was perceived by the pious Victorians as an expression of religious, and therefore, moral values. Its revival was thus seen as virtuous and equated with moral revival. For this reason an ecclesiastical character was predominant.
Charles Douglas Figgis (1849 - 1895) also designed the Ballarat Presbyterian church, the former Ballarat Congregational Church, the former Ballarat Mining Exchange and the Geelong Club amongst many other buildings during his short life.