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ST MARK'S PARISH PRIMARY SCHOOL

Location 118 Argyle Street, Fawkner VIC 3060 - Property No 43658 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

[1/2] St Mark's Parish Primary [2/2] 118 Argyle St. Fawkner

Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
St Mark's Parish Primary School, comprising the building constructed c.1934 at 118 Argyle Street, Fawkner. The other school buildings on the site are not significant.

How is it Significant?
St Mark's Parish Primary School is of local historic, social and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it Significant?
Of historic and social significance as an early school in the Fawkner area, which demonstrates the suburban development that occurred in the intewar period. (AHC Criteria A.4 & G.1)

Of aesthetic significance as a representative example of a simple Interwar school building, which is notable for the structural and decorative use of clinker brick and the facade detailing. (AHC Criterion E.1)