Bacchus Marsh Boer War Memorial
Main Street BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
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Bacchus Marsh Boer War Memorial - Physical Description 1
Stone column and drinking fountain
Bacchus Marsh Boer War Memorial - Historical Australian Themes
Remembering the fallen
Bacchus Marsh Boer War Memorial - Usage/Former Usage
Commemoration
Veterans Description for Public
Bacchus Marsh Boer War Memorial - Veterans Description for Public
The Bacchus Marsh Boer War Memorial is located in Main Street (outside the Post Office). It is an abstracted and eclectic Gothic commemorative monument, with three colours of granite. There is a light grey square plinth of three levels. The uppermost level has chamfered corners. This is surmounted by a polished Indian red cylindrical granite base. Projecting from this is a drinking fountain basin moulded in the same material. The cylindrical shaft is dark grey polished granite. This is capped with red granite in the moulded and gabled form of a rook chess piece. Two reducing moulds follow, in dark grey, then red granite. The finial is reducing octagonal crystalline-shaped, terminating in a four-sided poppyhead. There are various inscriptions, inscribed with gold leaf.
The South African War Memorial Drinking Fountain was unveiled in November 1901, commemorating the local volunteers who fought in the Boer War, 1899-1902 (rather than causalities). Designed and erected by Messrs Chambers and Cutten, the War Memorial Fountain, 'in imperishable granite', testified, in the words of S.T. Staughton, 'to the unity of the Empire and the determination and ability of the British race to uphold it.'
It is of state historical significance as a rare example of a Boer War memorial and as the embodiment of an early expression by the community to unprecedentedly embrace an international engagement. It is also of historical significance in the town for its association with an important and influential local figure. Finally, it has architectural significance as a striking design, which has endured as a presence in the streetscape for almost a century.
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RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0503
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BACCHUS MARSH EXPRESS OFFICE AND PRINTING WORKSVictorian Heritage Register H0504
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FORMER CHRISTOPHER CRISP RESIDENCEVictorian Heritage Register H0505
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