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Geelong Grammar School (former) including interior
55A MAUD STREET GEELONG - PROPERTY NUMBER 215644, GREATER GEELONG CITY
City South Residential Heritage Area
Geelong Grammar School (former) including interior
55A MAUD STREET GEELONG - PROPERTY NUMBER 215644, GREATER GEELONG CITY
City South Residential Heritage Area
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The Geelong Grammar School, a once imposing Tudor Gothic Style quadrangular school building complex was, when completed 1857, the most substantial work of Backhouse & Reynolds, a celebrated Geelong firm of architects whose reputation was largely based on the scholarly Italinate design for the Matthew Flinders School at Geelong. The surviving south wing, which is not indicative of the overall quadrangular school design, is a physical manifestation of the foundation years of Geelong Grammar School, Victoria's most prestigious public school. All that remains of the quadrangular school building is the two storey south wing built of cement rendered basalt with steep roof gables, decorated barges and attic dormers.
How is it significant?
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The Geelong Grammar School, a once imposing Tudor Gothic Style quadrangular school building complex was, when completed 1857, the most substantial work of Backhouse & Reynolds, a celebrated Geelong firm of architects whose reputation was largely based on the scholarly Italinate design for the Matthew Flinders School at Geelong. The surviving south wing, which is not indicative of the overall quadrangular school design, is a physical manifestation of the foundation years of Geelong Grammar School, Victoria's most prestigious public school. All that remains of the quadrangular school building is the two storey south wing built of cement rendered basalt with steep roof gables, decorated barges and attic dormers.
Why is it significant?
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The Geelong Grammar School, a once imposing Tudor Gothic Style quadrangular school building complex was, when completed 1857, the most substantial work of Backhouse & Reynolds, a celebrated Geelong firm of architects whose reputation was largely based on the scholarly Italinate design for the Matthew Flinders School at Geelong. The surviving south wing, which is not indicative of the overall quadrangular school design, is a physical manifestation of the foundation years of Geelong Grammar School, Victoria's most prestigious public school. All that remains of the quadrangular school building is the two storey south wing built of cement rendered basalt with steep roof gables, decorated barges and attic dormers.
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Heritage Study and Grading
Greater Geelong - Geelong Region Historic Buildings and Objects Study Volume 2
Author: Allan Willingham
Year: 1986
Grading: B
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FORMER GEELONG WOOL EXCHANGEVictorian Heritage Register H0622
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FORMER SCOTTISH CHIEFS HOTELVictorian Heritage Register H0662
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GEELONG TOWN HALLVictorian Heritage Register H0184
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