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Old Geelong Grammar School

Other Name Dysart Private Hotel Location 55 Maud Street, GEELONG VIC 3220 - Property No B1154 File Number B1154 Level State

[1/1] B1154 Old Geelong Grammar

Statement of Significance

All that remains of the Old Geelong Grammar School, a once imposing Tudor Gothic style quadrangular school building, is the two storey south wing now occupied as the Reformed Theological College. This complex was constructed in 1857 from premiated competition designs by Geelong architects Backhouse and Reynolds and the south wing, which contained the master's residence, was built of cement rendered basalt with steep roof gables, decorated barges and attic dormers.

The Geelong Grammar School when completed in 1857 was the most substantial work of Backhouse and Reynolds, a celebrated Geelong firm of architects whose reputation was largely based on the scholarly Italianate design for the Mathew Flinders School at Geelong. The surviving south wing, which is not indicitative of the overall quadrangular school design, is a physical manifestation of the foundation years of the Geelong Grammar School, Victoria's most prestigious public school.

The exterior of the Old Geelong Grammar School appears to be intact. The interior has not been inspected.



First Classified 21/7/60
Upgraded Aug 60
Revised: Classified State 3/8/98