Back to search results » Back to search page »

Former Gaelic Church & Schoolhouse

Location

271 Latrobe Terrace,, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B4268

File Number

B4268

Level

State

[1/2]
B4268 Frmr Gaelic Church
[2/2]
B4268 Frmr Gaelic Church

Statement of Significance

A combined church and school house built in 1853-4 to the design of John Young and of interest on historical, religious and architectural grounds. It is one of the most intact surviving examples of the government subsidised church-schools of the 1850s, the oldest surviving Free Presbyterian church in Victoria, and its first congregation was largely immigrants from the Scottish highlands. It has a design of a distinctive though naive Tudor character rendered particularly attractive by the combination of local sandstone and old brickwork.
Classified: 26/10/1978
Revised: 03/08/1998
See alsoB1146 Free Presbyterian Church (next door).

First Classified 3/3/88
Revised: Classified State 3/8/98

Group