Heritage Site - Woodhouse Grove Wesleyan Chapel
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Simplicity is the design motif.
One of the primary tenants of the Wesleyan church is the authority of the Bible in all matters. This display at the front of the church plays homage to this.
For over 160 years, congregations have sat here to worship God.
Of architectural and aesthetic significance as an unusual example of a Georgian detailed Wesleyan chapel. The chapel demonstrates an early use of cream brick and a rare use of the local Koonung Creek stone. The chapel is important as a substantially intact 1850s building which has undergone little alteration on the exterior or interior. It has been in continuous use as a chapel since constructed.
John Aspinall built this building on his own land in 1856. It is not only significant architecturally, but for the fact that it has been used by various congregations as a place of worship since constructed. It has undergone not modernisation and is now not allowed to be altered. under its heritage overlay.