Knightswood Congregational Church And Hall, 12 Dunterlie Avenue

Knightswood Congregational Church and Hall, located at 12 Dunterlie Avenue, was designed by Frank F Macdonald in 1933. This stripped Tudor Gothic church features aisles and an apse, constructed from cream reconstituted stone and supported by stepped buttresses.

On the southeast elevation, the tall gable is flanked by lower side aisles. At the center, there is a 4-centred two-leaf door with a corbelled string course above it, leading to a blind quatrefoil frieze that serves as an apron to a pointed arch three-light window, which has stripped perpendicular tracery and is closely flanked by buttresses. Each outer bay contains a cusp-headed window at ground level and a small lancet window above. The corbelled string course continues along this elevation, with additional buttresses on either side. The gablehead features an arrowslit and an apex finial, while the lean-to aisles have blind cusp-headed windows.

The southwest elevation consists of eight bays, with a lean-to aisle covering seven of them. There is a door on the outer left, and each bay contains groups of three 4-centred windows, separated by buttresses, with a cusp-headed window in the outer right bay. The clerestory is blank on the outer right, while paired 4-centred windows are present in the central bays. A tall narrow window is located on the outer left.

The northeast elevation mirrors the southwest elevation but has the church hall abutting the outer right bays. The northwest elevation features a canted apse with dividing buttresses, a blank center, and tall narrow windows on the flanks.

Inside, the church boasts a fine reconstituted stone interior with 4-centre arched aisle arcades that have chamfered arrises on the piers, cavetto cornices, and diamond recesses in the spandrels. The open timber ceiling includes bracketed cross beams and metal ties, with bracketed roofs over the aisles. The octagonal pulpit is adorned with barley-sugar colonnettes and impressive inlay work, including trompe-l'œil gadroon. There is also a timber lectern featuring a cherub figure and a polygonal timber font, both of fine craftsmanship. The communion table is blind and has cusp-tracery with a quatrefoil frieze. The nave is filled with fixed pews and has boarded dadoes.

At the rear, there is a gabled L-plan hall that clasps the church on the northeast side. The property is enclosed by contemporary plain railings.