St. Patrick's Primary School, 1 Wattle Street, ST ARNAUD

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic School is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level. Although partially altered and having experienced some additions, the School demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar rudimentary Free Gothic style. These qualities include the gable roof form that traverses the site, together with two skillion wings that project towards the side. Other intact qualities include the lapped galvanised corrugated iron roof cladding, ventilator along the ridgeline, elaborate cement rendered pointed double timber door in the gable end (with flanking panelled piers and gablet that project at the front), stuccoed cement gable infill, wide eaves with decorative elongated timber brackets, side pointed arch doorway (with a similar cement rendered surround as the gable end doorway but with the moulded cement School crest above), cement window sills and architraves, steel framed windows with casements in the lower sashes, timber framed double hung windows, cement rendered pointed arcade (with unpainted brick and rendered balustrades having cement rendered cappings), stepped parapet brick wing at the end of the arcade, projecting unpainted brick buttresses with cement copings, and the timber crosses that adorn the gable ends and doorway.

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic School site is historically significant at a LOCAL level. The site has associations with the establishment of the Sisters of Mercy Roman Catholic Convent from 1903. The building is associated with the development of the Roman Catholic school from 1927.

St. Patrick's Roman Catholic School is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is highly valued and recognised by the St. Arnaud Catholic community for religious and educational reasons.

Overall, St. Patrick's Roman Catholic School is of LOCAL significance.

Group

Education

Category

School - Private