Queen Elizabeth Oval Grandstand

88 View Street, BENDIGO VIC 3550 - Property No 212379

Rosalind Park Precinct

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Queen Elizabeth Oval or Upper Reserve Grandstand, View Street

Statement of Significance

• Other Records For This Place
  • QUEEN ELIZABETH OVAL GRANDSTAND - Victorian Heritage Register
• Additional Place Information

  • Physical Description 1

    Queen Elizabeth Oval Grandstand - Physical Description 1

    A highly ornamental sporting pavilion, this grandstand evokes everything, architecturally, that is Bendigo. The far-eastern flare of each of the four roof gables, the timber detailing within each and the cast-iron ornament. at the ridge, frieze and brackets, and balustrade; all are attributes seen in the distinctive Bendigo domestic style of the 1890s and early 1900s, inspired by William Beebe among others.

    The walls are red brick and stucco and the roof clad with corrugated iron, shaped in an unusual bell-cast iron. The red brick caretaker's residence is typical of early this century, with a Dutch hip roof of corrugated iron and ric-rac frieze, in timber, to the verandah.

    A small number of grandstands survive from this period in the State, and this is perhaps the best of the larger examples.

    Comparison could be made with the Ballarat Oval grandstand (built 1898, designed by Clegg, Kell & Miller), but although distinctive, the Ballarat example is unrelated to contemporary domestic work or prevailing styles, unlike the Bendigo grandstand (Jacobs Lewis Vines & Aitken, Ballarat, Page 27).

    Integrity

    Queen Elizabeth Oval Grandstand - Integrity

    A timber addition has been made to the east end, the enclosure fence replaced and openings blocked on the south face, but otherwise it is generally original. Unrelated toilet blocks line View Street.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Greater Bendigo - View Street Rosalind Park Study

    Author: Ratio Consultants
    Year: 1992
    Grading: A

• Attachments
  • Queen Elizabeth Oval or Upper Reserve Grandstand, View Street OCR
    
  • Precinct_8.02_Camp_Hill_Rosalind_Park citation
    
  • Precinct_8.00_Bendigo_Commercial & Civic map
    
  • Queen Elizabeth Oval or Upper Reserve Grandstand, View Street CMP
    
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