Bacchus Marsh RSL Hall

Main Street BACCHUS MARSH, MOORABOOL SHIRE

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Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Conditions

    Bacchus Marsh RSL Hall - Physical Conditions

    Generally good. There is at least one structural crack between the two gables of the Mechanics Institute Hall in front. The timber needs staining.

    Intactness

    Bacchus Marsh RSL Hall - Intactness

    Poor. The alterations have severely reduced the integrityofthese historic buildings, in crating a new design of its own period. This design is intact.

    Physical Description 1

    Bacchus Marsh RSL Hall - Physical Description 1

    RSL A small brick hall with a gable roof facing Main Street. The brickwork is bagged and painted.

    There is a porch in front to right. In front is a memorial: a cuboid clad in Castlemaine slate, with bronze plaques. "Erected by the people of the Shire of Bacchus Marsh in recognition of those who served their Country in war", another bluestone memorial panel fixed to the building commemorates the erection ofthe building in memory of "... soldiers who fought and died for King and Country in the Great War..." Public Library A modem (or "contemporary") building with cemented and battered walls, bagged and painted. It has a low pitched steel deck roof across, a contradiction to the roof pitch of tile halls which flank it. Its right hand bay thrusts forward in a v-shape. This has useful seating fixed to it. It is linked to the halls by the heavy mission brown stained fascia and battered timber posts of a covered way, which it interrupts . It is lit by a clerestory across. The covered way is also un-related to the footpath which is well forward of it, so its function is really only as a visual link. Fixed to the wall is another bluestone panel commemorating a building erected in January 1856. (The construction date of a building which presumably preceded the 1856 Shire Hall, demolished to build the library). Mechanics'Tnstitute Hall. A brick hall with two parallel gable roofs facing Main Street, that at left is smaller and set back. They are linked with a window-wall lobby, dark glazed. These are also bagged and painted. The covered way, by now with venical posts, extends across their front . At left is a further memorial bluestone panel dated 20 July 1883.

    Veterans Description for Public

    Bacchus Marsh RSL Hall - Veterans Description for Public

    The Bacchus Marsh RSL, located on Main Street, resembles a small brick hall with a gable roof and bagged and painted brickwork. The RSL was formerly known as 'The Soldiers Memorial Hall', which was built in 1921 to commemorate those who volunteered for active service in the First World War. A bluestone memorial panel fixed to the building commemorates the erection of the building in memory of "Soldiers who fought and died for King and Country in the Great War." Two decades later, a recreation room was built in an addition to the Soldiers' clubrooms, with funding from the Shire Council and RSL War Services Fund. It was then officially re-opened as the RSL on March 16th, 1941. The additional room provided recreation facilities for soldiers on leave from Darley Camp.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Moorabool - Bacchus Marsh Heritage Study 1995

    Author: Richard Peterson and Daniel Catrice
    Year: 1995
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