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ST BERNARD'S CATHOLIC CHURCH COMPLEX

Other Name St Bernard's Catholic Primary School Location 10-38 Patterson Street, COBURG VIC 3058 - Property No 22892 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is significant?
The St Bernard's Catholic Church building on the corner of Sheffield and Patterson Streets, Coburg.

How is it significant?
The St Bernard's Catholic Church building on the corner of Sheffield and Patterson Streets, Coburg is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Moreland.

Why is it significant?
Of historic significance, for its association with the St Bernard's Catholic Church and Primary School complex which has been located on this site since 1941 (building extant), and built to provide a local Catholic church for the people of East Coburg thus allowing the 1941 Church to become part of the school portion of the site. (AHC Criterion G.1)

Of aesthetic significance as a good example of post-war ecclesiastical architecture in Coburg, by architect Gregor Hirsch an émigré Romanina who started the architectural firm CONARG. The church also incorporates a bronze sculpture adjacent to the Patterson St entrance. (AHC Criterion E.1)