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Bacchus Marsh Lawn Tennis Club Inc. (Former Maddingley Courthouse)

Other Name

Maddingley Court House

Location

Maddingley Park, Taverner Street BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

Level

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Bacchus Marsh Lawn Tennis Club
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Bacchus Marsh Lawn Tennis Club

Statement of Significance

An unusual Court House designed by the recently formed Public Works

Department and built in 1857-8, but closed in 1858 to be replaced by the Bacchus Marsh Court House in Main Street, then subsequently used as Municipal offices by the Bacchus

Marsh and District Road Board and the Shire Council until 1896(?). It is the earliest government building in the municipality: the first courthouse as well as the first office of municipal government.

It is of regional historical significance for its association with judicial and municipal development in the early settlement, and in demonstrating the effect of early government action.

It is of regional architectural significance as a very early work of the recently formed Public Works Department in Victoria. It is a representative, if unusual, example of a very early courthouse building and a rare relatively intact survival of this building type.

More recently it has acquired local historical significance associated with sporting and social developments in community life and social significance. Throughout its life as a public building over 140 years as a traditional community focus and meeting place.

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