doli

By doli

Lead light kitchen

In the back of the Presbyterian Hall (once the church).
Where else would you find 103 year old lead light windows (and north facing, what's more) in a kitchen?

I have previously blipped the main room (a shot which doesn't really do it justice - sorry!) and an atmospheric detail therein.
The whole building is dripping with atmosphere and character, thanks to the church not having any money for "improvements" since the 1950s.
It also has the best acoustics in town, after the church itself.

It's just lovely, but (as is the way of such things) if we don't use it, we'll lose it.

For those who are interested, some historic and architectural notes from the NSW Department of Environment and Heritage...
The first Presbyterian services were held in 1897 and in 1900 the original Blue Mountains Presbyterian parish created at Blackheath, including Mount Victoria and Wentworth Falls. The church at Blackheath (now the hall) was built at once in 1901, the first Presbyterian church in the Mountains, described by the Rev. Dr James Cameron as ‘well-designed’.
The Blue Mountains Grammar School considered buying the hall and removing it to Wentworth Falls as their chapel, but this was not pursued. (Thank goodness! - Ed)
The hall is significant as the oldest Presbyterian church building in the Blue Mountains and is a good example of a Federation carpenter gothic church in the Blue Mountains:
4 bay gabled hall on east west axis with gabled porch at west end facing street.
Corrugated steel roof with exposed rafters to eaves
Weatherboard walls, rusticated to west, chamfered to sides and rear. Exposed steel braces on side walls
Pointed arch pair of framed and sheeted doors with label mould on west wall of entry porch
Timber lattice pattern gable infill
Pointed 3 sash leadlight windows to side walls with label moulds
Set three narrow windows on west wall over entry porch, central window has label mould
Metal vent hoods
New timber stair on south side of hall. Decorative boarding on front gable of hall and picket fence along Wentworth St removed since 1950s.

Look forward to blips and historic notes on the church...
Here's one to be going on with.

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