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Location76 Pasco Street WILLIAMSTOWN, Hobsons Bay City LevelIncl in HO area contributory |
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What is Significant?
The Williamstown High School complex, comprising the original Williamstown Borough Grammar School buildings designed by William Solway and constructed by Hopkins and Ross in 1867 with c.1915 additions and the Interwar Moderne School constructed in 1948, at 76 Pasco Street, Williamstown. The Williamstown High School complex is of local historic, social and aesthetic significance to the City of Hobsons Bay. Why is it Significant? Historically, the complex as a whole is significant as a collection of buildings on the one site that illustrate the development of education in Williamstown over 150 years. It includes the original 1867 Grammar School, now the oldest school building in Williamstown, which it is believed was the third to be established in Victoria and demonstrates how local government and communities attempted to provide secular education in the era prior to the Free, Compulsory and Secular Education Act of 1872. (AHC criteria A4 and D2) Socially, the school is significant for its long and continuous relationship with the citizens of Williamstown, who were actively involved in its creation and early development and who continue to use it today. (AHC criterion G1) Aesthetically, the 1867 building is significant as a fine example of Italianate design. The 1948 building is a notable and rare example of an intact Moderne school design that demonstrates the influence of chief PWD architect, Percy Everett. (AHC criteria B2, E1 and F1)
Education
School - Private