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Temperance Hall

Location

McCann Street, CERES VIC 3221 - Property No 232803

Level

Included in Heritage Overlay

Statement of Significance

B listed - Regional Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The Ceres Temperance Hall was erected in 1861-2 for the Barrabool Hills Total Abstinence Society, a body devoted to temperance and largely founded as a reaction to the intemperance of the Ceres district, an area noted for its numerous vineyards. The rectangular plan hall, built of Barrabool sandstone with a modest Colonial Georgian facade of ashlar sandstone, chastely enhanced is of unknown design origin. The Ceres temperance Hall is an Important surviving public building of the once thriving vineyard district of the Barrabool Hills and with strong association with the foundation of the temperance movement in Victoria.

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register.

REFERENCES

Geelong Advertiser - 13th May, 1861 p p2, Col 8.

Poyner, K. J. - "Public Buildings in and around Ceres", Undergraduate Research essay, Deakin University, 1978, pp. 15-22.

Group

Religion

Category

Welfare/Hall