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Former St Johns Church of England School and Parish Hall
Location33 Jackson Street Toorak, STONNINGTON CITY LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
Statement of Significance
What is Significant? How is it Significant? Why is it Significant?
The site at 33-35 Jackson Street, Toorak retains an early Schoolhouse (c.1867) and Parish Hall (c.1912). A verger's cottage (1928) and a small ablutions block also survive on the site although these contribute little to the significance of the place.
The buildings are of architectural and historical significance at a local level.
The group is significant as an early, intact and unusually legible example of a church school group and for the long role the school has played in both religious and secular education in the Toorak area. It includes the oldest surviving, purpose-built Schoolhouse in the Municipality of note for its rudimentary Gothic design. It is also the oldest surviving church school in the City. The Hall is noteworthy for its distinctive design, in particular its entry porch, undertaken to designs by noted Arts and Crafts architect, Walter Butler. St John's School is of historically significant for its associations with the development of education within the Municipality. It is the only surviving school complex within the City to predate the Education Act of November 1872, serving as a church school and later State school prior to the construction of the Hawksburn Primary School in 1874. St John's operated as a Sunday school well into the twentieth century.
Group
Education
Category
School - Private