Former Bailbrook Mission Church

The former Bailbrook Mission Church, now a dwelling, was opened on 4 July 1892. It is constructed of a timber frame clad in corrugated iron, with a corrugated iron roof. The building is of Gothic style, with a cruciform plan, incorporating a short chancel and transepts, and a porch set into a south-west tower. Cusped bargeboards adorn the roof. The windows have wood tracery with cusped heads and elongated quatrefoils of three lights to the east and west gables, and two lights to other windows. Pointed arched doorways have raised architraves to the south transept and the porch, which is surmounted by a bellcote with louvred windows, formerly capped by a spire. Inside, the building features an iron-strutted principal rafter roof and match-boarded lining to the walls and roof. A stained-glass east memorial window dates to 1898. Original fittings include a pulpit and some pews. This is an exceptionally elaborate example of a "tin tabernacle," a type of industrially produced, often temporary church using early pre-fabricated construction methods. The design, taken from a 1889 catalogue by William Cooper of Old Kent Road, London, was the most expensive and ecclesiastically correct option. It was formerly in a poor state of repair.