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St Paul's Church and School, 122 Jasper Road
122 Jasper Road BENTLEIGH, Glen Eira City

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122 Jasper Rd, Bentleigh
122 Jasper Rd, Bentleigh
122 Jasper Rd, Bentleigh
122 Jasper Rd, Bentleigh
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Statement of Significance

The St. Pauls complex demonstrates the importance of the Catholic Church's presence in Bentleigh since the 1920's both in terms of its spiritual and educational roles. Both the church and school are conservative buildings for their periods but the former is a striking element in the Jasper Road streetscape, imparting character to the locality and being a sophisticated design of its type.

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    • Physical Description 1

      St Paul's Church and School, 122 Jasper Road - Physical Description 1

      The Church of St. Paul is an imposing stylistically conservative cream brick building distinguished by its picturesque massing with offset belltower and understated stylistic links with northern Italian religious architectural tradition.

      Elements include sandstone dressings to the openings, stainless steel windows, a figure of St. Paul in low relief and limited sculptured stone tablets.

      Inside the ceilings have light varnished timber linings. There is a rear organ 10ft and the clerestory windows are continuously glazed in stained glass.

      St. Paul's School is in the late Gothic Revival mode in red brick and stucco with motifs including buttressed and pilastrated corners, sloping stuccoed copings and steeply pitched gable roofs complemented by ornamental spandrels and castellated parapets.

      There are sympathetic later additions.

      Physical Description 2

      St Paul's Church and School, 122 Jasper Road - Physical Description 2

      Condition: sound

      Physical Description 3

      St Paul's Church and School, 122 Jasper Road - Physical Description 3

      Integrity: high

      Historical Australian Themes

      St Paul's Church and School, 122 Jasper Road - Historical Australian Themes

      Worship - Catholic Education - Private

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Heritage Study and Grading

      Glen Eira - City of Glen Eira Heritage Management Plan

      Author: Andrew Ward, Architectural Historian
      Year: 1996
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