Flagstaff Crisis Accommodation, former King Street School, Eades Place, 9 Roden Street, West Melbourne
Butler, Graeme11/01/1985
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Flagstaff Crisis Accommodation, former King Street School, Eades Place, 9 Roden Street, West Melbourne
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11/01/1985
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BIF-NORTH 105363
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Grading as at 1985 : BPeriod : Mid Victorian (1875-1876)Grantee/Reserve : State School Reserve 1874Former King Street Primary School, now Flagstaff Crisis Accommodation.During 1875, the present school building was built at a cost of £6749, with Percy Walker, who had been the head of St Mary's Anglican School in Howard Street, in charge. By 4876, there were 2313 children on the roll although the average attendance was c955, with a staff of 26. By the end of the century the attendance had decreased to c750. Repair work was carried out in 1910 after a period of decline. [Vision and Realisation Vol 3 p 73]This school was one of 13 schools of three differing categories offering prizes in an 1873 competition amongst private architects arranged by the new education ministry. Architects Terry and Oakden won this commission, although, in retrospect, the design did not become a pattern for future schools as others did, [L Burchell "Victorian Schools" 1980 pp 95, 103, 110, 140]A face brick and stucco school of two levels arranged in a slated gabled roof E-plan, with a central entrance wing and bellcote over. Buttresses and both Gothic and Tudor-arched openings created an almost ecclesiastical flavour. Quatrefoil piercings and window hood moulds are further Medieval (English) elements, as is the oculus under the bellcote, although of more Italian origin. Other detached wings have been added within the grounds.Architecturally, distinguished by the lack of replication of the design meted out to others from the 1873 competition but taken as a part of the whole, it was influential on all following designs within the Education Department, until the 1920s, by underscoring the medieval precedent for school design. It is also a contemporary part of the Eades Place precinct.
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