Statement of Cultural Heritage Significance:

Statement of Significance The first fully polychromatic brick church in Australia, designed by Reed & Barnes and built in two stages between 1866 and 1870, but without the intended tower and spire. The building comprises a buttressed nave of eight bays elevated above a crypt and a chancel with square termination. It is of great significance for its early use of fully developed polychramy, employing red and cream bircks against a brown background in quoining, diaperwork and window surrounds; the last deriving explicitly from Italian examples published by Street and Ruskin. The plastered interior includes a western gallery, an early pipe organ by George Fincham, and stained glass by several prominent makers, including Ferguson & Urie, Rogers & Hughes, Brooks Robinson, and William Montgomery.