The Garrison Church

 

The Garrison Church

Nestled between the 1840s church and parish hall, both listed on the NSW State Heritage Register, the new pavilion makes contact with the ground and sandstone walls with a light touch. Henry Ginn designed the church, with further work by Edmund Blacket in the 1850s. The pavilion is positioned respectfully, set back from the sandstone buildings to establish a careful dialogue between old and new.

Its architectural language inverts the solidity of the historic fabric: open, inviting and transparent. Similarly, a new amenities building is tucked into a recessive location to preserve the hierarchy and legibility of the heritage buildings, providing compliant bathroom facilities for the congregation and guests without negatively impacting the church complex.

In conjunction with the pavilion, alterations to the parish hall liberate the existing timber roof structure and stone surfaces from internal partitions and other later extensions. Sensitively positioned and detailed, new ‘pods’ recede from the original walls and roof, housing modern services for the new kitchen and audiovisual functions. These interventions support reinvigorated secondary church uses, including small to medium-sized meetings and social groups.

fjcstudio minimised new connections to the heritage fabric and, where essential, carefully tuned them to celebrate the distinct character of both the contemporary additions and retained heritage.

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