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St Patricks School No. 782, 51-61 Patrick Street, STAWELL

Location

51-61 Patrick Street STAWELL, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE

Level

Recommended for Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School No. 782, Patrick Street, Stawell, makes a significant architectural and visual contribution to the local area. This building has significance as a largely intact example of interwar school design by the Roman Catholic Church. Constructed in 1934, this building replaced an earlier brick school building that had been built in 1895.

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School No. 782 is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities for a school building constructed during the interwar period. These qualities include the simple gable roof form that traverses the site, and the rendered central bay, with its stepped parapet, cross, blind trefoil tracery motifs and flanking projecting pointed piers with incised crosses and rectangular panels. Other intact qualities include the single storey height, unpainted brick wall construction, lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding (painted red), wide eaves, banks of early timber framed double hung 12 paned windows with 6 paned hopper sashes arranged in pairs, and the unpainted brick buttresses with sloped rendered copings. The front brick fence with pointed piers, scrolled steel gates, and the eucalypts and mature cypresses also contribute to the significance of the place.

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School No. 782 is historically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with Catholic education which began in Stawell in 1858 and continues today. The school is also associated with the presence of the Sisters of St. Joseph Order in Stawell since 1924.

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School No. 782 is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and highly valued by the Stawell community for religious and educational reasons.

Overall, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School No. 782 is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Education

Category

School - State (public)