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	Melbourne Grammar School Chapel of St Peter & Organ Domain Road,, SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141 - Property No B5912	Chapel Statement of Significance: The first school chapel in Victoria, built in 1892-3 to a design by A E Johnston in the modern British tradition of architects like Pearson and Bruges. It is built of bluestone with Waurn Ponds freestone dressings and comprises a four bay nave with large cinquefoil clerestory windows, two-bay transepts placed under twin transverse gables, apsidal chancel, organ chamber and spire. It is notable for its meticulous detailing including an interior faced ... more	B5912	Regional
	Melbourne Grammar School Melbourne Church Of England Grammar School 345-369 St Kilda Road, and 93-151 Domain Road, and 2-124 Bromby Street, and 1-99 Domain Road, MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY	A fine group of two-storey bluestone buildings enclosing a quadrangle and defining a series of interlocking spaces opening onto equally historic playing fields. The school buildings were commenced in May 1856 to the design of architects Webb & Tayler who also provided the master plan. Although the Witherby tower was lower than the original design, the buildings of the first twenty years were very much as Webb and Tayler intended. They formed the core of the school then, ... more	B0217	State

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Melbourne Grammar School Chapel of St Peter & Organ

Domain Road,, SOUTH YARRA VIC 3141 - Property No B5912

Chapel Statement of Significance: The first school chapel in Victoria, built in 1892-3 to a design by A E Johnston in the modern British tradition of architects like Pearson and Bruges. It is built of bluestone with Waurn Ponds freestone dressings and comprises a four bay nave with large cinquefoil clerestory windows, two-bay transepts placed under twin transverse gables, apsidal chancel, organ chamber and spire. It is notable for its meticulous detailing including an interior faced ... more

B5912

Regional

Melbourne Grammar School

Melbourne Church Of England Grammar School

345-369 St Kilda Road, and 93-151 Domain Road, and 2-124 Bromby Street, and 1-99 Domain Road, MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE CITY

A fine group of two-storey bluestone buildings enclosing a quadrangle and defining a series of interlocking spaces opening onto equally historic playing fields. The school buildings were commenced in May 1856 to the design of architects Webb & Tayler who also provided the master plan. Although the Witherby tower was lower than the original design, the buildings of the first twenty years were very much as Webb and Tayler intended. They formed the core of the school then, ... more

B0217

State