Scots Uniting Church, Campbellfield is a heritage-listed building at 1702 Hume Highway, Campbellfield, Victoria, Australia.
It was added to the
Victorian Heritage Register
The Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) lists places deemed to be of cultural heritage significance to the State of Victoria, Australia. It has statutory weight under the Heritage Act 2017. The Minister for Planning is the responsible Minister. H ...
on 9 October 1974.
It has one of the four remaining
churchyard
In Christian countries a churchyard is a patch of land adjoining or surrounding a church, which is usually owned by the relevant church or local parish itself. In the Scots language and in both Scottish English and Ulster-Scots, this can also ...
s in Victoria.
History
In 1842 a timber church was constructed on the site.
In 1855 the bluestone church, designed by Charles Laing, was built to replace the original church.
Graveyard
The churchyard, which adjoins Scots Uniting Church, has its earliest surviving gravestone from 1846.
The cemetery contains approximately 150 burials.
Heritage listing
Scots Uniting Church was listed on the
Victorian Heritage Register
The Victorian Heritage Register (VHR) lists places deemed to be of cultural heritage significance to the State of Victoria, Australia. It has statutory weight under the Heritage Act 2017. The Minister for Planning is the responsible Minister. H ...
on 9 October 1974.
See also
St Andrew's Graveyard, Brighton
St Andrew's Graveyard, Brighton is the graveyard of St Andrew's Anglican Church, Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The St Andrew's Graveyard is of historical significance as an extremely early, pre-Gold Rush graveyard and as a rare surv ...
References
External links
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Campbellfield (Scots Church) Cemetery- BillionGraves
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Cemeteries in Melbourne
Churchyards in Victoria
Buildings and structures in the City of Hume
Heritage-listed buildings in Melbourne