Category:Luddenham Uniting Church

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<nowiki>Luddenham Uniting Church; heritage-listed building and Uniting Church in Luddenham, New South Wales; Luddenham Methodist Church</nowiki>
Luddenham Uniting Church 
heritage-listed building and Uniting Church in Luddenham, New South Wales
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Street address
  • 45 Willmington Rd, Luddenham NSW 2745
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Heritage designation
  • Heritage Act — State Heritage Register
Inception
  • 1886
Map33° 52′ 52.51″ S, 150° 41′ 23.19″ E
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Wikidata Q115732641
NSW Heritage database ID: 2260120, 2260121
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English: Luddenham Uniting Church is the Uniting Church on Wilmington Road (formerly The Northern Road) in Luddenham, New South Wales. This modest brick church with gabled roof was completed in 1886 for the Primitive Methodists. The external walls are cement rendered and lined as fine ashlar stone masonry. The east elevation has a porch with a side door and flanking timber framed windows. The side elevations have buttresses and three timber framed lancet windows with modern decorative leadlights. The gabled roof has a low parapet and is sheeted in corrugated metal. The gable also includes a lancet shaped timber louvred vent. The church is set on a low rise at the southern edge of the village reserve. The foreground of the church is cleared and the church is highly visible from the road. At the rear of the church is a small c.1960s weatherboard hall with a gabled roof. Open woodland forms the backdrop to the church. The cemetery reserve at the rear of the grounds is enclosed by a post and rail timber fence. It contains only a small number of graves dating between 1889 and 1984, and includes members of the Bray, Wakeling and Longley families. It has no formal landscape design, but rural ambiance is imparted through natural vegetation bordering the southern boundary.

The church was completed in 1886 for the Primitive Methodist Church, a smallish sect of the main Wesleyan movement in the mid nineteenth century. Outside of metropolitan Sydney the Primitive Methodists had congregations in the Hunter Valley and at nearby Greendale where a chapel had been erected in 1856. The first Primitive Methodist combined church and chapel at Luddenham was completed in 1862 within two acres donated by Sir Charles Nicholson. A new church was completed in 1886, the contractor being G. Drummond on land donated by Richard Watkins.

Completed in 1886, the building is a unique example of an extant former Primitive Methodist Church in the LGA and demonstrates the development of a village at Luddenham in the late nineteenth century and the commencement of the provision of community services. The building is a good example of a rural church of the late nineteenth century retaining a form and detailing which provides insight into this type of building of the era, and its rural setting atop a rise on The Northern Road. The building continues in use as a Uniting Church and is one of a number of structures in Luddenham village erected over the nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth century that demonstrates the pattern of a village settlement at this important location on The Northern Road. This building is one of a contiguous group of three church related buildings. The cemetery is an important element within the Luddenham Village Centre, illustrating the development of the village in the 1870s - 80s.

There is a small cemetery with only about 18 marked graves, dating from between 1889 and 1984 (Fox & Associates, 1987).

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