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By the 1880s, Brunswick and Lee Street Primary schools were at full capacity, a site for another Brunswick school had been sought, with North Carlton and South Brunswick growing rapidly.
The main building of the school, a two-storey brick structure was designed under H R Bastow, a prominent member of the Plymouth Brethren the Chief Architect of the Public Works Department.
The School's historical significance derives from technical, cultural and social factors. Firstly, it demonstrates Brunswick's rapid of growth pattern in in the 1880s and ways of building developed for constrained inner-city cites. It also illustrates changes in school standards and teaching practices as well as showing the influence of the Brunswick community in achieving the standard of education they sought.
It is a large Gothic style building. It was the last of eleven schools which developed towards a distinct two storeyed central block between 1877–86, the building is recognisable for its high pitched slate roof, pointed arches, and clusters of tall octagonal chimneys and quatrefoils.
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