California Gully Primary School No. 123
4-14 Staley Street, CALIFORNIA GULLY VIC 3556 - Property No 186284
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Statement of Significance
Architecturally, the school is well-preserved and one of the best examples of the superb group of government schools built in the district; the school is also ideally sited for its picturesque roof line and possesses a valuable play shelter.
Historically, it has performed a major public building role in the important California Gully mining village area and is symbolic, by its size, of the once thriving gold mining industry which existed there.
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California Gully Primary School No. 123 - Physical Description 1
A highly :picturesque design among a distinctive group of Bastow school designs, California Gully school is based on Venetian Gothic precedents after the prevailing English use of the style for schools and other public buildings by architects such as Scott and Street. Pointed window openings, three colour brickwork (red, black and cream), stucco mouldings and stone sills provide for an exuberant expression of naturally occurring materials. However, it is the multi-gabled roof line, with helm-head gables and a slender spire and bell-tower combined with the multi-bayed plan, use of verandahs and clerestory lighting which provides the main usual impact. Timber detailing such as the eaves brackets with their nail-head mouldings and the panelled verandah frieze with fretted brackets, combine with the gable trusses to add another structural but decorative layer to the design. Ironwork includes gable apex spirelets and chimneys are of red brick with corbelled tops and stepped and cemented bases.
The plan is shape with separate (boys and girls) entrance under verandahs, either side of the central bay. A rotunda-like shelter shed on an octagonal plan with a lantern set atop a steeply pitched corrugated iron roof, lies to the west of the school. A memorial gateway dedicated to the two world wars is centred on a chain-wire fence at the frontage.
California Gully Primary School No. 123 - Integrity
External - Generally original, except for the new and unrelated front fence and temporary classrooms at the rear. Of note is the unchanged windows, an unusual attribute in 19th and early 20th century schools.
Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Bendigo - Eaglehawk & Bendigo Heritage Study
Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
Year: 1993
Grading: B
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FORMER METHODIST CHURCHVictorian Heritage Register H0692
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CALIFORNIA GULLY PRIMARY SCHOOLVictorian Heritage Register H1623
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JOHNSON'S REEF EXTENDED MINEVictorian Heritage Inventory
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"1890"Yarra City
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"AMF Officers" ShedMoorabool Shire
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"AQUA PROFONDA" SIGN, FITZROY POOLVictorian Heritage Register H1687
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