Wilton Parish Church Hall, Dickson Street

Wilton Parish Church Hall, built in 1897 by James Pearson Alison, is a large, predominantly single-storey, roughly square-plan building designed in the Arts and Crafts style. The hall features an asymmetrical design with deep eaves and a gabled main entrance on the southwest elevation. It has an ogee-capped belfry and a canted, buttressed wing at the southeast corner. The exterior is constructed of glazed red brick, accented with slim pilaster strips and decorative faience corbels on the main southwest elevation. The windows have chamfered margins with sloping cills, and are predominantly transomed and mullioned, featuring trefoil-detailed heads. The main entrance and upper window of the hall are adorned with segmental-arched mouldings. A squared entrance tower is topped with an open octagonal red sandstone bellcote, complete with a leaded roof and finial. There is also a recessed terracotta plaque depicting a tree with a motto.

The building includes rectangular-pattern leaded lights and boarded timber doors. The roof is covered with graded grey slates, featuring terracotta ridges and finials. The timber eaves are bracketed and overhanging, with plain timber bargeboards. The hall has paired, tall, highly ornate octagonal barley-twist ridge stacks and cast-iron rainwater goods.

Inside, there is a long central corridor with glazed herringbone floor tiles and cast-iron grilles leading to various halls. The large main hall boasts arched metal I-beam roof trusses that support a plain timber-boarded roof, with tiled window surrounds and timber panelling up to dado height. It features three large ornately carved iron heating grilles, a stage, and a balcony. A timber stair with turned banisters leads to the upper balcony. The canted-end Boys Brigade chapel has an ornate dentil-detailed carved timber roof structure supported on stone corbels, and includes a stained-glass window by Lillian J Pocock from 1947. A small hall features timber boarding to dado height and a full-height folding timber partition screen, along with plain cornicing and plain timber chimneypieces.