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Former Ernst Jones Hall & Chapel

Other Name Entertainment Hall Location Ernest Hills Drive and Springthorpe Boulevard and Cherry Street,, MACLEOD VIC 3085 - Property No B6660 File Number B6660 Level State

[1/1] B6660 Entertainment Hall

Statement of Significance

Erected in 1929-30 to the design of Public Works Department architect Evan Smith , the Ernest Jones Hall and Chapel is of state significance as a fine exemple of the Spanish Mission style, and an essentially intact example of its application to a combined hall and chapel. The Hall and Chapel is significant in terms of the design for psychiatric hospitals as one of the few known examples of a recreational building detached from ward accommodation. The Hall and Chapel is an impotant element of a substantially intact Edwardian and inter-war psychiatric hospital complex, and a fitting memorial to Dr. W Ernest Jones, Inspector-General of the Insane between 1905 and 1937, and a prominent figure in mental health reform. The site of the Hall & Chapel has been assoicated with recreational uses at Mont Park since 1916.
Classified: 05/12/1994

See alsoB6674, B6789, B2418, B6794, B6937, B6938, B6939, B7042, B7024