The Panelled Front Projection of the Korumburra Baptist Church - Corner of Mine Road and Hymans Street, Korumburra
The Korumburra Baptist Church, on the corner of Mine Road and Hymans Street, was designed by the architectural firm Jervis and Ormerod and was constructed by Mr. Faulkner in 1895. Aesthetically, it is an interesting example of Federation Carpenter Gothic style, an architectural movement which, as its name suggests, is an idiom that makes great use of timber, demonstrating how the tradesmen used, connected, expressed and embellished the various timber components of the building. The embellishment usually drew upon shapes and patterns reminiscent of various previous Gothic revival architectural movements.
Important elements in the Korumburra Baptist Church identifying it as an example of the Federation Carpenter Gothic style include the use of weatherboards over a timber frame, pointed arched stained glass windows and unusual detailing not such as the treatment of the main front with its panelled projections. This style of architecture is unique not only to the town, but the surrounding area.
The Korumburra Baptist Church is important as the first Baptist Church to be built in the area, and is thought to be the only early Baptist Church still extant. It is therefore highly significant in demonstrating the early development of this church in the Shire.
Korumburra is a medium-sized dairy and farming town in country Victoria, located on the South Gippsland Highway, 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Surrounded by rolling green hills, the town has a population of a little over 4,000 people. Korumburra has built itself on coal mining (after the discovery of a coal seam in 1870), local forestry and dairy farming. Whilst the coal seam has been used up, farming in the area still thrives and a great deal of dairy produce is created from the area. The post office in the area opened on the 1st of September in 1884, and moved to the township on the railway survey line on the 1st of November 1889, the existing office being renamed Glentress. The steam railway connecting it with Melbourne arrived in 1891. Whilst the train line has long since operating commercially, it has found a new life as the popular tourist railway the South Gippsland Railway which operates a heritage railway service between the major country centre of Leongatha and the small market town of Nyora.
The Panelled Front Projection of the Korumburra Baptist Church - Corner of Mine Road and Hymans Street, Korumburra
The Korumburra Baptist Church, on the corner of Mine Road and Hymans Street, was designed by the architectural firm Jervis and Ormerod and was constructed by Mr. Faulkner in 1895. Aesthetically, it is an interesting example of Federation Carpenter Gothic style, an architectural movement which, as its name suggests, is an idiom that makes great use of timber, demonstrating how the tradesmen used, connected, expressed and embellished the various timber components of the building. The embellishment usually drew upon shapes and patterns reminiscent of various previous Gothic revival architectural movements.
Important elements in the Korumburra Baptist Church identifying it as an example of the Federation Carpenter Gothic style include the use of weatherboards over a timber frame, pointed arched stained glass windows and unusual detailing not such as the treatment of the main front with its panelled projections. This style of architecture is unique not only to the town, but the surrounding area.
The Korumburra Baptist Church is important as the first Baptist Church to be built in the area, and is thought to be the only early Baptist Church still extant. It is therefore highly significant in demonstrating the early development of this church in the Shire.
Korumburra is a medium-sized dairy and farming town in country Victoria, located on the South Gippsland Highway, 120 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. Surrounded by rolling green hills, the town has a population of a little over 4,000 people. Korumburra has built itself on coal mining (after the discovery of a coal seam in 1870), local forestry and dairy farming. Whilst the coal seam has been used up, farming in the area still thrives and a great deal of dairy produce is created from the area. The post office in the area opened on the 1st of September in 1884, and moved to the township on the railway survey line on the 1st of November 1889, the existing office being renamed Glentress. The steam railway connecting it with Melbourne arrived in 1891. Whilst the train line has long since operating commercially, it has found a new life as the popular tourist railway the South Gippsland Railway which operates a heritage railway service between the major country centre of Leongatha and the small market town of Nyora.