ST AMBROSE'S SCHOOL & CHURCH HALL
1-3 Dawson Street, Brunswick VIC 3056 - Property No 5726
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Statement of Significance
Aesthetically, the school and hall are substantially intact andrepresentative examples of their respective types, distinguished bysimple but effective detailing in the Federation and Gothic stylerespectively. Individually and collectively, the buildings form asignificant element in the streetscape.
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ST AMBROSE'S SCHOOL & CHURCH HALL - Physical Description 1
St Ambrose's School (1916), at 1-3 Dawson Street, Brunswick, is an elongated single storey, red brick building with a gabled roof clad in corrugated galvanised steel. The gabled entrance has red brick side walls and a wide rendered frieze topped with a simple pediment, decorated with the building's name and floral mouldings. Windows are paired timber-framed double hung sashes. The original slate roof has been replaced, and cyclone wire screens cover the windows. A red brick addition has been made to the southern elevation of the building.
The adjacent St Ambrose's Hall (1891) is a single storey red brick building with a bluestone base and buttresses. It has a gabled, slate roof and rendered gable end copings, window dressings and buttress dressings. The gable notches have trefoil motifs. Doors and windows have pointed arch heads with a combination of stone and rendered dressings. Sills are of stone, and the windows are timber-framed, double-hung, four-light sashes with an awning window over. The foyer section was constructed later (c.1916), and has a prominent curved, rendered parapet with two moulded string courses and unusual polygonal pinnacles topping the shallow brick pilasters which mark the corners and flank the front entrance. A later, red brick addition with gabled roof has been made to the southern end of the building and there is a small skillion-roofed addition between the western elevation of the church and a brick garden wall. It has weatherboard cladding and corrugated steel roof.
Key Architectural Elements: face red brick walls with rendered
dressingsoriginal signage over entrances
timber-framed multi-paned windows to the school
arched head timber-framed windows to the hall
gabled slate roof to the hall
Conservation Guidelines:
remove non-original front fence
preferably reinstate original roofing material to the school building
remove non-original security doors from front entrance of the hall
remove signage from window openings of the hall
Comparative Examples: St Mark's Parish Primary School, Argyle Street, Fawkner (c.1920s)
Former Holy Trinity School and Hall, 520 Sydney Road, Coburg
Former St Paul's School, 562 Sydney Road, CoburgHeritage Study and Grading
Moreland - Keeping Brunswick's heritage: A Report on the Review of the Brunswick Conservation Study
Author: Context Pty Ltd
Year: 1990
Grading: LocalMoreland - City of Moreland Heritage Review
Author: Allen Lovell and Associates
Year: 1999
Grading:
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BRUNSWICK FIRE STATION AND FLATSVictorian Heritage Register H0916
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IRON HOUSEVictorian Heritage Register H0665
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FORMER HOFFMAN BRICKWORKSVictorian Heritage Register H0703
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