Citation report - Victoria's Planning Schemes

City of Port Phillip Heritage Review
Identifier
Formerly
Address
Constructed 1882
Significance
Description
St Kilda Park Primary School
unknown
Fitzroy St
ST. KILDA
Amendment C 29
Comment
Canterbury Rd
(Mapped as a Significant heritage property.)
Category School
Designer H. R. Bastow
This building provides an intact example of the more exuberant style of Gothic adopted for Victorian schools.
The two-storey splayed corner element is unusual. The school is situated at the edge of an important
architectural area of St Kilda.
Primary Source
Nigel Lewis and Associates, St. Kilda Conservation Study, 1982
Other Studies
Fitzroy St
The St Kilda Park Primary School was erected in 1882 by contractors Beardall and Glenncross to a design of
architect H.R. Bastow prepared three years earlier. As early as 1874 land was applied for, but it was not
granted until 1878 when a bill was passed in the Legislative Assembly for the annexure of land from the
permanent reserve, Albert Park. The two-storey, red brick school is in the Gothic style, which had been
developing in the late 1870s in Victorian school design. Polychromatic brickwork, pointed arches surmounting
openings and steep gable roofs give a Gothic character. The two storey splayed corner element is unusual in
school design, but provides a visual transition between the two facades. A prominent tower exhibits
decorative iron cresting and arches below supported on iron columns. Similar school plans were adopted in
the late 1880s.
Intactness
This school building is very intact and the steep roof has been re-slated. Additions and alterations were
carried out in 1923 and two additional rooms erected in 1969.
Grey St
Dalgety St
Heritage Precinct Overlay None
Heritage Overlay(s) HO124
Citation No:
Princes St
154