COBURG NORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL NO.4543

Later classrooms, office and library buildings from the 1970s and 80s are not significant.

How is it significant?
Coburg North Primary School is of historic, architectural and social significance to Moreland City.

Why is it significant?
Coburg North Primary School, originally constructed in 1937 as an infant's school to nearby Pascoe Vale primary is historically significant as evidence of the separation of infant and primary education that informed much primary school building in the early twentieth century when infant schools were built as separate blocks within primary schools. It is socially significant as a school that was established following strong lobbying by the local community.(Criteria A & G)

As a late inter-war infant building Coburg North Primary is of architectural significance for its unusual and austere art deco design by the prominent architect and Chief of the Public Works Department from 1934 to 1953, Percy Everett. Coburg North Primary School demonstrates Everett's adherence to modernism combined with the neo-classical formality and decoration in the pre-cast panels. The building is a highly unusual design for a primary school and exhibits uncompromising austerity, unlike many of Everett's other designs which are quite dramatic formal modernist compositions. Despite some alterations to windows and doors, the building still exhibits strong architectural qualities. (Criteria B, E, F& H)

Group

Education

Category

School - State (public)