St Albans Village Plan Precinct

Victoria Crescent and Albert Crescent ST ALBANS, Brimbank City

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Statement of Significance

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  • Physical Description 1

    St Albans Village Plan Precinct - Physical Description 1

    The St. Albans village plan is an unusual street pattern of concentric circular streets centred on Circus East and Circus West (which originally encompassed the St. Albans Railway Station) and Victoria and Albert Crescents. Radial streets emanate from the centre, although not all extending as far as the Circus with a diagonal cross formed by the railway and Esplanades on one had and Mitchell Street/ Arthur Street on the other. Adelaide, Theodore, Gertrude and Elaine Streets complete the radial pattern.
    
    Alfrieda Street is distinguished by its median strip, becoming the focus of the shopping strip early on.
    
    The precinct is bounded by Kate, Ruth, Alexina, Alfrieda Streets and Main road, although the influence of the original surveyed street pattern can be seen extending beyond this original core and the radiating streets continue. The areas surrounding this core have very different street patterns with a rectangular grid of the 1950s to the north, east and south, and curvilinear 1970s subdivisions to the west.
    
    
    
    The purpose of the heritage report is to identify the street pattern as the significant element. However, there are two buildings which are also contributory to the significance of the precinct. These are:
    
    
    
    STREET Place DATE Contributory: Significance Level Site Number
    
    East Esplanade St. Albans Uniting Church (formerly Presbyterian) 1912 /1950 c. Yes Local 094
    
    16 Arthur Street House, St Albans estate 1890c Yes Local 093
    
    
    
    Two other places are separately identified as being of individual cultural significance and are located within the heritage study, but are of a much later period, and so are not contributory to the significance of the precinct. These are:
    
    
    
    Kate Street St. George's Free Serbian Orthodox Church 1954-, 1964 No Local 096
    
    East Esplanade St. Albans Public Hall 1956 No Local 095

    Physical Conditions

    St Albans Village Plan Precinct - Physical Conditions

    Because there was little development in St. Albans after the initial promotion of the estate, there is veryt little contemporary built fabric associated with the subdivision. Some streets have also been altered themselves, with the commerical development at the bottom of Victoria Crescent having a detrimental impact on the streetscape.

    Historical Australian Themes

    St Albans Village Plan Precinct - Historical Australian Themes

    4 Building settlement, towns and cities
    4.1 Planning urban settlements

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Brimbank - Brimbank City Council Post-contact Cultural Heritage Study

    Author: G. Vines
    Year: 2000
    Grading: Local

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