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STATEMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE SIGNIFICANCE:
Castlemaine had established a diverse industrial base which helped maintain prosperity and population in the 1870s after the easily won gold had been exhausted in the 1850s and 60s. The large State schools of this decade are a testimony to this persistence. The Castlemaine School No 119 which had opened in 1875 was soon overcrowded with over 900 pupils, prompting the establishment of the new Castlemaine North School No.2051, to accommodate 500 pupils, on Barker Street in 1878. The HR Bastow design was based on an abbreviation of the influential Glenferrie School plan from which Castlemaine North inherited the asymmetrically placed tower. In Victorian Free Gothic style, with pointed segmental arch windows and Rustic Gothic traceried barges, the building also features polychrome brickwork, with restrained cream and black horizontal banding on the red brick walls. The building is situated on a sloping site and is mounted on a rough faced grey granite base which gives the building more elevation on the Barker Street facade. The vertical emphasis is continued in the tall walls, high narrow Gothic windows, and the steeply pitched slate roofs with narrow eaves. The jerkin head treatment of the gables on the front facade is emphasised by the deep tracery of the barges, and combines well with the steep tower and bellcote topped with copper clad spire. A few small brick additions have been made to the rear of the building, and other classroom buildings added to the site, but the original building remains largely uncompromised. The front facade has suffered none of the unsympathetic window alterations commonly undertaken on Victorian Schools in the post 1908 period. Internally the classrooms and offices have been altered and subdivided a number of times.
The Castlemaine North School is of historical and architectural importance to the state of Victoria.
The Castlemaine North School is historically important for its association with the provision for the need for educational facilities in a period of increasing population and continuing prosperity in Castlemaine in the 1870s, subsequent to the early gains of the gold rushes.
The Castlemaine North School is architecturally important as a highly intact and representative example of a later urban Gothic school located in a regional city. It is a particularly representative and intact example of the group of large urban schools based on variations to the influential Glenferrie school design. Through the successful combination of steep jerkin head roof vertically emphasised Gothic elements, and restrained horizontal banding, along with prominent and elevated positioning on the site, the school established a commanding presence in the main thoroughfare of Castlemaine. |
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