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All Saints Peace Memorial Hall
113 Noble Street, NEWTOWN VIC 3220 - Property No 203319
Aphrasia Street Heritage Area

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Statement of Significance

B Listed - Regional Significance

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

This property has regional historical significance as an example of the early residences built on large allotments in fine rural settings for Newtown's gentry. Know earlier as "Rosebank" and constructed c1861, it has historical associations with James Scott, a well known Geelong district timber merchant, who lived there from the 1860s until his death, and from the 1950s with Newtown's All Saints Anglican Church when in 1956, it was converted into All Saints Peace Memorial Hall. It has original architectural significance as a dignified Classical bluestone building with some interior elements surviving. Important elements include its unpainted masonry, fine masonry mouldings, fanlight and twelve -pane windows.

REFERENCE:

All Saints Church, Geelong, Centenary history 1862-1962.

IBID

Allan Willingham, Geelong Regional Commission Study, Sheet 350.

Newton rate book 1861-62, No. 467.

IBID

IBID 1862-63, No 475.

IBID 1897-98 No 725

Edward A Vidler -The Book of Geelong, Henry Franks & Co, Geelong, 1897, p 47.

Geelong Advertiser, 10 July 1860, 13 August 1862, 8th November, 1864, 14 November, 1866.

Newtown Rate Book 1899-1900, No 727

Ibid 1919-20, No 926.

Geelong Advertiser - 21 March 1889, 10 August 1891.

Newtown Rate Book 1935, No 1078.

All Saints Church Geelong, Centenary history.

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    • Physical Description 1

      All Saints Peace Memorial Hall - Physical Description 1

      DESCRIPTION

      An Edwardian timber house, with very complex roof forms, with bracketed eaves and turned timber finials. There is a 45% splayed corner rectangular bay, with wavy balustrade timbers and conical domes octagonal roof over the bay terminating the verandah. The rest has gables embossed with a rising sun motif and with an arched lattice valance. It has very dense romantic old garden with several mature trees and old rockeries. There are two timber garages facing (21) Mercer Parae. Much of the old fence has been replaced (presumably in replica) but some of the old fence remains, overgrowth with mulenbeckia. It has a splayed corner Edwardian gate with turned timber spindle rails.

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