Geelong Grammar School (former) including interior

Location

55A MAUD STREET GEELONG - PROPERTY NUMBER 215644, GREATER GEELONG CITY

Level

Registered

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.

Group

Education

Category

School - State (public)