Temperance Hall
McCann Street, CERES VIC 3221 - Property No 232803
Statement of Significance
B listed - Regional Significance
STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE
The Ceres Temperance Hall was erected in 1861-2 for the Barrabool Hills Total Abstinence Society, a body devoted to temperance and largely founded as a reaction to the intemperance of the Ceres district, an area noted for its numerous vineyards. The rectangular plan hall, built of Barrabool sandstone with a modest Colonial Georgian facade of ashlar sandstone, chastely enhanced is of unknown design origin. The Ceres temperance Hall is an Important surviving public building of the once thriving vineyard district of the Barrabool Hills and with strong association with the foundation of the temperance movement in Victoria.
RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES
Geelong Regional Commission Register.
REFERENCES
Geelong Advertiser - 13th May, 1861 p p2, Col 8.
Poyner, K. J. - "Public Buildings in and around Ceres", Undergraduate Research essay, Deakin University, 1978, pp. 15-22.
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NEUCHATEL
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