Residence

The former Salvation Army Hall at 18 Marshall Street, Newtown, has significance as the earliest surviving purpose-built Salvation Army building and as one of few examples of a Victorian Tudor style in the Greater Geelong municipality. Built in 1889 to a design by the Melbourne architect, William Rain, progenitor of a number of Salvation Army barracks in the late 1880s, the building served the Salvation Army in Chilwell until the early 1980s. The former Salvation Army Hall appears to be in good condition and of moderate-high integrity when viewed from the street.

The former Salvation Army Hall at 18 Marshall Street is architecturally significant at a LOCAL level (AHC D.2, E.1). Although partly altered, it demonstrates original design qualities of a Victorian Tudor style, representing a rare example of its type in the Greater Geelong area. These qualities include the main front facade with slightly recessive central gabled bay and flanking projecting pavilions with battlemented parapets, together with the gable roof behind. Other intact or appropriate qualities include the brick wall construction, corrugated profile sheet metal roof cladding, rendered dressings (quoinwork, stringcourses, signage panel, window and door heads - but not the overpainting), pointed window and door heads, timber framed double hung windows, oculus ventilator in the gable end (with label mould above) and the side projecting buttresses and some window openings.

The former Salvation Army Hall at 18 Marshall Street, is historically significant at a LOCAL level (AHC A.4, H.1). It is associated with the development of the Salvation Army in Newtown from 1889 until the early 1980s and is a physical legacy of the aspirations and ideology of the non-conformist Christian denomination in the late 19th century. The building also has associations with the Melbourne architect, William Rain, who was responsible for the designs of at least 6 other Salvation Army barracks in the late 1880s.

Overall, the former Salvation Army Hall at 18 Marshall Street is of LOCAL significance.

External Paint Controls: Yes

Internal Alteration Controls: No

Tree Controls: No

Outbuildings and/or Fences: No

The HO apply to the whole of the site.

Nil

City of Newtown and Chilwell Rate Books 1860-1950, digital copies on CD, Geelong Heritage Centre.

Geelong Waterworks and Sewerage Plan of Drainage 089_016 (1911).

Margaret Frewin & Lorraine Phelan, Churches of Geelong & District Vol 1 Pre-1900 Geelong & District, Geelong Family History Group Inc., Geelong, 2003, p. 117.

Wynd photograph collection, Geelong Heritage Centre.

M. Lewis (ed.), Victorian Churches: their origins, their story and their architecture, National Trust of Australia (Victoria), Melbourne, 1991.

M. Lewis (ed.), Australian Architectural Index, revd. edn., University of Melbourne, 2000.

W.R. Brownhill & I. Wynd, History of Geelong & Corio Bay With Postscript 1955-1990, Geelong Advertiser, Geelong, 1990.

'Former Geelong Grammar School, H188' & 'Former St. Giles Church & Free School Church, H633', Victorian Heritage Database online, www. heritage.vic.gov.au, September 2008.

Aitken, Honman & Huddle, 'City of Geelong West Urban Conservation Study', prepared for the City of Geelong West, vol. 2, 1986.

Group

Residential buildings (private)

Category

House