Memorial Baptist Church

Memorial Baptist Church was built in 1921-23 by William Hayne. It is constructed of gault brick with a red brick east front, stone and marble dressings and details, and slate roofs. The building is designed in a Byzantine style.

The church has an open basilican plan with aisles and an apse, with the liturgical east and west reversed. The east front features a five-stage square-section corner tower on either side. These towers have polygonal angles rising to polygonal turrets framing an octagonal drum and dome. The tower entrances are round-arched and have marble door surrounds with square heads, each with a rectangular light in the soffit. There is a round-headed window in the second stage, banding between the stages, a round-headed window in the fourth stage below blind arcading, and a square pierced panel below the drum of the dome.

The central three-bay, three-stage section has a gabled centre with a wide arched marble door surround consisting of three orders, with bulbous columns terminating in Byzantine capitals. The doorway architrave rests on twin central columns. A wide radially-glazed arched overlight is present above the doors, although these doors have been replaced with plate glass. Three arched windows are present on the second stage, flanked by single windows in the outer bays. The gable head has a five-light Diocletian window. Polygonal turrets are present on either side. The side bays have pierced square panels to the parapet.

The north and south returns are two storeys, lit through segmental windows to the ground floor and arched windows to the first floor. The elevations are punctuated by polygonal red-brick turrets and stock-brick pilasters. The north return has a square-headed doorway.

Inside, the sanctuary features a deeply coffered ceiling with a geometrical pattern of ribbing that radiates from a central oculus, with the principal framing being octagonal. A projector opening faces west. In 1977, the aisles were closed off with solid walls, constructing a meeting room at the east end and a kitchen to the south. This work concealed the original three-sided gallery. The panelled gallery balustrade remains.

The western apse has a wide semi-circular arch leading to the sanctuary and contains a total-immersion font set into the floor. The apse walls have open arched arcading at the upper level, resting on a panelled solid balustrade, with the rear wall pierced by two transomed windows. A three-sided timber pulpit is located to the north of the apse, with panelling and Vitruvian scroll decoration. Opposite is the organ case, dating from 1924 and built by Spurden Rutt & Co. Ltd. of Leyton.