Edithmead Mission Church

A 'tin tabernacle' mission church originally constructed as a school in East Brent and relocated to Edithmead in 1919.

MATERIALS: Built of timber on a brick base, clad in corrugated galvanised iron, with timber windows and interior.

PLAN: A simple rectangular plan with a small porch to the east.

EXTERIOR: A simple rectangular building with a pitched roof, eastern porch and lean-to, central roof turret and small belfry to the western end. The roof has decorative iron ridge pieces with a fleur-de-lys finial. Chevron boarded south door in the porch. Six windows on the eastern elevation, four to the north (including the lean-to) and one small window to the eastern gable. All windows are modern timber with four fixed panes and two opening lights at the top other than the fixed window on the eastern gable.

INTERIOR: Pine match boarded walls and ceilings (painted) and wooden floorboards. Fitted timber cupboard in the south-east corner and two small iron brackets above each window. The simple bench pews, lectern, dias and altar are not fixed. Door frames are stop chamfered and internal chevron boarded doors match the entrance door.