Specimen trees at Yarraville Gardens

off Hyde Street YARRAVILLE, Maribyrnong City

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HO138 (1) - Yarraville Gardens, 139-147 Hyde Street, Yarraville.JPG

Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    Specimen trees at Yarraville Gardens - Physical Description 1

    Laid out like many 19th and early 20th Century suburban parks, the Yarraville Gardens has crossing serpentine asphalt pathways with basalt pitcher kerb and channelling. Records and the 1947 aerial photographs suggest that the pathways may have been once gravelled and later cindered. However, their layout is not all that it was with the south-eastern section of the ornamental garden having been disbanded for another playing field.

    Vesiculated basalt rockeries and perimeter fencing survive, indicating some reinstatement subsequent to the road-widening and (more importantly) a similar landscape style practised by Matthews in the resplendent Footscray Park (q.v.). Existing bedding shrubs include the pittosporum, fire bush and coprosma, but it is the palms (Canary Island) which dominate, interspersed with the probable 19th Century core of the garden described in 1913 viz. Hoop, Canary island and Aleppo Pines, mature Elms, and Pepper Trees. Intrusions to the established character include new red brick planter-walls (see existing rubble stone borders), new toilets, use of basalt pitchers as walling or bubbler-bases, rather than rubble (see perimeter walls) and new playground equipment.

    Physical Description 2

    Specimen trees at Yarraville Gardens - Physical Description 2

    Specimen trees in the Yarraville Gardens include the dominant Canary Island palms, conifers, pittosporum and coprosma, interspersed with what is likely to be a 19th Century garden core as described in 1913 viz. hoop, Canary Island and Aleppo Pines, mature elms, and pepper trees.

    Context
    Part of notable Yarraville Gardens & Cuming Reserve garden precinct, with industry and the river to the east.

    Historical Australian Themes

    Specimen trees at Yarraville Gardens - Historical Australian Themes

    Thematic context
    Australian Principal Theme Developing cultural institutions and ways of life
    PAHT Subtheme Creating landscape
    Local Theme(s) Reserves and parks
    

    Physical Description 3

    Specimen trees at Yarraville Gardens - Physical Description 3

    Map (Melway) 42C7
    Boundary description These trees are being assessed as part of a separate project being managed by City
    of Maribyrnong.
    Heritage Significance Regional
    Creation date(s) 1913-1915c
    Local Government Area City of Maribyrnong
    Ownership Type Public

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Maribyrnong - Maribyrnong Heritage Review

    Author: Jill Barnard, Graeme Butler, Francine Gilfedder & Gary Vines
    Year: 2000
    Grading:

• Attachments
  • Maribyrnong Heritage Review 2000, Volume 6
    
  • Yarraville Gardens Citation from Footscray Urban Conservation Study
    
  • Yarraville Gardens Conservation Plan
    
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