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Former City Court

Other Name Magistrates' Court Location 325-343 Russell Street,, MELBOURNE VIC 3000 - Property No B3833 File Number B3833 Level State

[1/1] B3833 Former City Court

Statement of Significance

Individual Statement of Significance: A two-storeyed building in Norman Revival style reflecting traditional legal derivations; designed in rock-faced Batesford lime-stone with massive arched entrances by Public Works Department architect G.B.H. Austin. Opened in 1914.
Classified: 15/04/1976
Revised: 25/02/1994
Also Part of Group Classification with File B4653 - City Watch House B2773 - R.M.I.T. Building No. 1,B116 Old Melbourne Gaol Group Statement of Significance : This group consists of the RMIT Building, 124 Latrobe Street, the City Court on the Latrobe Russell Street corne, the City Watch House and the Old Melbourne Gaol in Russell Street. Each of the four notable buildings has already been Classified in its own right. The former Working Mens College, now an RMIT building, was completed in 1891 in the Gothic Revival style and is architecturally compatible with the adjacent mediaeval style City Watch House which was built in 1907-8. The Melbourne Gaol bluestone perimeter wall and other gaol buildings are not only architecturally but also socially and historically linked with the City Watch House and City Court and together they form a notable streetscape in Russell Street.