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St Cuthbert's Trail St Cuthbert’s Trail St Cuthbert’s Bayside Architectural Trail 3 Trail Architectural Bayside Get the Bayside Walks & Trails App Distance: Distance: Brighton Bay Street Undulations: 2.8kms Gentle Walking Time: Walking 76 Royal Avenue, Sandringham PO Box 27 Sandringham VIC 3191 T (03) 9599 4444 [email protected] 50mins www.bayside.vic.gov.au 500 Metres September 2013 1 Former ES&A Bank Address 279 Bay St, Brighton (cnr Asling St) Bayside Architecutral Trail Style Gothic Revival Trail 3 Architects Terry & Oakden Property 1 Date 1882 Other name: ANZ Bank The steeply sloped roof has gabled ends capped with unpainted cement render. Window and door heads are painted and finished with cement render portico projects A small motifs. flower with adorned from the symmetric façade and contains the word ‘Bank’ embossed on either side, with other text formed in these rendered panels. Brighton’s was first the English bank1874 in Scottish & Australian Bank (ES&A), which merged with the The ANZ ES&A in 1970. Bank, first established moved into this building in 1874, in It functioned1882. in its intended fashion until 2002. ES&A were known for their series of banks in the Gothic Revival style, many designed by William Wardell, who also designed the ES&A head office, the Gothic Bank, in Collins St, Melbourne This(1883). branch is another example of that style, brick. tuck-pointed in executed The North Brighton branch of the Commercial Bank was the second bank in Brighton and rented a building on the corner of Bay and Cochrane Streets when it opened in The 1883. two- purpose-built own its to moved later bank storey building further along Bay Street at this grand and very large is building This location. for a suburban bank, and shows the wealth of the area at that time. The rear and upper floor was originally a four-bedroom residence for the manager. Its appearance is almost as grand as a town hall was it Unusually, site. corner the dominates and built with an attached shop and residence in style. matching Former Commercial Bank Address 282–284 Bay St, Brighton (cnr St Andrews St) Bayside Architecutral Trail Style Renaissance Revival Trail 3 Architect Lloyd Tayler Property 2 1890 Date 2 3 Eco Townhouses Address 125 St Andrews St, Brighton Bayside Architecutral Trail Style Neo Modern Trail 3 Architect Luke Middleton (EME Group) Property 3 Date 2005 The design responds to the surrounding surrounding the to responds design The playful a in dwellings residential and commercial manner and includes a reinterpretation of a solid a with contrasted verandah Victorian-style form. building EME Group’s focus on environmental sustainability environmental on focus Group’s EME also which design, this throughout highlighted is responds cleverly its to context. The building is oriented the to north allow to passive solar gain, and double-glazed windows aim reduce to heat transfer. In 2003, EME received funding from the Victorian Government’s Smart Water Fund initiative to develop a strategy for reducing water use in the home, and these four townhouses are examples of EME Group’s commitment water to reduction. The complex is fitted with 10,000-litretwo water tanks, with this water being used flush to toilets and water gardens. Built Durrant, for W. a dairyman, Seagrove is an as known (also construction pisé of example rammed earth), consisting of beach sand, lime and beach stones. It was featured in the book Early time a at Built 1840–1888. Architecture Melbourne vernacular the replacing were villas neat when cottages of the 1850s, Seagrove is a single-storey verandah concave-profile a with villa Victorian posts. timber coupled on supported in macrophylla) (Ficus fig Bay Moreton large The the front garden is possibly as old as the house. Standing in front of a house like Seagrove gives you a rare glimpse into middle-class life of the 1880s. Seagrove Address 12 Middle Cres, Brighton Bayside Architecutral Trail Style Italianate Trail 3 Architect Unknown Property 4 1877 Date 4 5 Kilkerran Address 6 William St, Brighton Bayside Architecutral Trail Style Italianate Trail 3 Architect Unknown, (possibly Charles Webb) Property 5 Date 1885 The house has recently been renovated in keeping state. original its with The exterior of the building is rendered brick with ashlar coursing – fine lines ruled in the render which appears It stonework. of appearance the give never have to been painted. Robert Wilson lived in the house until when 1887 he leased the property Andrewto Jack. The Jack family is memorialised in the Gates Lych at both St Andrews Church, New Street, Brighton and the (1857) Former Brighton Street, Black Church, Congregational This house(1875). stands above others in the area and is visible from a distance. It is interesting to speculate whether it was the first building in the area and whether there was a request for only it. around built be to houses single-storey Built for merchant Robert Wilson, Kilkerran is portico that classical distinctive a by dominated Window tiles. floor marble black-and-white has and balconettes cast-iron includes decoration notably is floor upper the but mouldings, architrave restrained compared with the lower floor. In 1850 theIn 1850 first Presbyterian church for the bayside parish was built on this site, serving the Cheltenham. to through right Kilda St from area However, by the 1880s a bigger church was required and St Cuthbert’s was built. (The original bluestone church occupied the land where the current Memorial Hall stands and was demolished in the early 1950s). St Cuthbert’s is a fine example of a bichrome Gothic Revival church. Horizontal red brick banding enlivens the façade, and elaborately decorated doorways create a human scale the to street. The stained-glass windows and Fincham organ are notable, particularly if you are lucky enough view to them from inside. Four rendered entrance square gabled the from up project finials theto east of the church, matching those around the tall spire, adding a lively to skyline. St Cuthbert’s sits on a high point in Brighton and is a prominent marker from the surrounding streets. St Cuthbert’s Presbyterian Church Address 10 Wilson St, Brighton Bayside Architecutral Trail Style Gothic Revival Trail 3 Architect Evander McIvor Property 6 1889 Date 6 Bayside Architecutral Trail Architecutral Bayside Brighton Town Hall Town Brighton Property 7 Trail 3 Trail 7 Style Address Architects Originally the Brighton Town Hall housed both Date the Municipal Offices and the Courthouse. The building was controversial at the time as it exceeded the estimated £6,000 budget by £2,000. Beswicke designed a number of town halls, 30 Wilson St, Brighton (cnr Carpenter St) Renaissance Revival Renaissance including Essendon (1885), Hawthorn (1887), and 1933 1885–86, Wilson & Beswicke (1885–86), Oakley & Parkes (1933) Dandenong (1890). The design of the building, with its Renaissance Revival pilastered façades and prominent tower (in this case with a clock), balustraded parapet and French Second Empire mansard roof, is characteristic of the many town halls built in this period in Victoria. Malvern Town Hall is a similar design with a corner tower. The double-height hall with projecting cast-iron portico has hosted many great balls, weddings and receptions. The first gathering was held on 21 April 1886, when a serious argument broke out; it is said that Mayor Thomas Bent (1838–1909) hit someone with his cane. Oakley & Parkes designed alterations to the interior in 1933 and more than 20 years later designed the new Council Chambers behind. Bayside Architecutral Trail Architecutral Bayside Brighton Civic Centre Civic Brighton Property 8 Trail 3 Trail 8 Style Address Architect Date Built to celebrate Brighton’s centenary in 1959, the Brighton Civic Centre was unique and unusual for its time. Considered by many to be influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian style and his Guggenheim Museum in New York (1946–59), it is 15 Boxshall St, Brighton Brighton St, Boxshall 15 Modernist Modernist K F Knight (Oakley & Parkes) 1959 interesting that the architect has always rejected this link. The building itself sits opposite the Brighton Town Hall (1885–86), which highlights the progression in municipal patronage over 73 years. The distinctive cylindrical drum consists of three bands of brickwork, each projecting out slightly from the one below, all seemingly supported on a glass ring. The building also has very strong horizontal lines. The projecting flat concrete roof of the ground floor enables the building to feel less overwhelming and connects the circular section with the square section. Industrial designer Grant Featherston, forerunner of the post World War II industrial design movement in Australia, designed the peacock blue interior and accompanying furniture. The cork oak tree (Quercus suber) on the Boxhall Street boundary is significant as it is estimated to be nearly 100 years old. Other names: City of Brighton Council Offices, City of Bayside Municipal Library. 9 Residence Address 61 St Andrews St, Brighton Bayside Architecutral Trail Style Vernacular, Edwardian Trail 3 Architect Unknown Property 9 Date pre-1861 The original part of this charming, simple cottage is a rare surviving example of mid–nineteenth century Bayside. in housing The original cottage was built with randomly randomly with built was cottage original The coursed bluestone, which was unusual in Brighton as it had be to transported across the The Bay. it changes since many undergone has building was originally constructed. There have been timber additions at the rear and all the windows have been changed. It has been re-roofed with terracotta tiles, which flow onto a verandah supported by turned timber posts, typical of the Edwardian period. This early bluestone cottage sits nestled on a land by surrounded originally corner allotment, holdings that extend out the to rear of the property.
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