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STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The Christian College Senior school campus at 18A & 18-32 Burdekin Drive is aesthetically significant at a REGIONAL level. It demonstrates original design qualities of an interwar eclectic Colonial Revival, stripped Classical and neo-Romanesque style. These qualities include the central chapel and tower flanked by two storey wings and rear annex buildings, with grassed courtyards and concrete pathways between. Other intact qualities include the unpainted brick and concrete construction, parapetted hipped and gabled roof forms clad in early tiles, semi-circular neo-Romanesque projections with conical tiled roofs on the flanking wings, deep first floor balconies and ground floor verandahs supported by early round concrete Doric columns with solid concrete balustrades, imposing geometrical stripped Classical and Art Deco chapel clock tower - crowned by a pyramidal roof form - with a clock, simple rectangular openings, projecting oriel, and a two storey recessed segmental arch below, plain, square entrance opening and a segmentally arched window (supported by two Doric concrete columnar mullions), semi-circular apse of the chapel, plain rectilinear coffered ceiling, mouldings and cornices of the chapel interior, pointed and oculus chapel windows with stained glass, vestigial pilasters and substantial niches flanking the apse, and recessed dado mould surrounding the internal walls of the chapel. The grassed ovals to the east, bitumen courtyards/basketball courts and shelter pavilions and solid red brick boundary walls to the west, together with the early substantial cypress trees, contribute to the significance of the place. The Christian College Senior school campus at 18A & 18-32 Burdekin Drive is historically significant at a REGIONAL level. It is associated with the St. Augustine's Catholic Orphanage from 1936, and with the Geelong Christian College from c.1980. It is also associated with the Catholic architect, Cyril Kelly. The Christian College Senior school campus at 18A & 18-32 Burdekin Drive is socially significant at a REGIONAL level. It is recognised and highly valued by the community for its religious, cultural, educational and social associations. Overall, the Christian College Senior school campus at 18A & 18-32 Burdekin Drive is of REGIONAL significance.
Recommendation: It is recommended that a professional Conservation Management Plan be carried out on this site, to more fully determine significant external and internal significant fabric (including any remnant gardens, paths, etc), and to establish policies and guidelines that maintain the integrity of the complex, yet allow for appropriate development.
References
1. P. Chapman, St. Augustine's and the Christian Brothers: an Archival History, St. Augustine's Community, Whittington, 1993.2. 'St. Augustine's, G |
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