Former St James Church of England- Mortlake Historic Area
Shaw Street,, MORTLAKE VIC 3272 - Property No B0058
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Statement of Significance
Adiminutive bluestone church with four-bay nave, vestry and chancel designed by Leonard Terry and built in 1864-5. The exterior is dominated by a prominent bell-cote, substantial raking buttresses, and windows with crisply detailed trefoil heads. The incongruous porch of 1962-3 is excluded from the classification.
Classified: 'Local' 01/02/1965
Revised: 26/05/1988
Historic Area Statement of Significance: The significance of the Shaw Street precinct derives from its group of nineteenth century bluestone buildings which were erected predominantly for civic or commerical use. They reflect an important phase of Mortlake's urban development in the two decades of the 1860s and 1870s. This was a period when the region's rural economy was consolidating and stabilising after the expansion of the squatting and gold eras.
Also of significance is the fact that the integrity of the precinct reflects the availability of public land as a result of a layout found in only three towns in Victoria and representative of a town plan widely used in South Australia, with its separation of town centre and suburbs by an area of public parkland.
Classified: 04/07/1988.
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CHIMNEY, BLUESTONE MILLVictorian Heritage Register H0323
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State School No 397National Trust
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Post Office - Group Classification - Mortlake Historic AreaNational Trust
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