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Heritage Survey Bendigo Health’s Bendigo Hospital Campus Lucan Street Bendigo This Conservation Analysis and Conservation Management Plan has been undertaken in accordance with the principles of the Burra Charter adopted by ICOMOS Australia This document has been completed by Jane McKenzie, Suzanne Zahra and David Wixted. © heritage ALLIANCE 2010 Document Control Date Issue Signoff 8.7.10 Draft DWx 20.8.10 Revised following comments DWx from Kevin Jackson Final DWx 30.11.10 Revised following comments DWx from Kevin Jackson CONTENTS CONTENTS ...................................................................................................................................................... i ILLUSTRATIONS & DRAWINGS ............................................................................................................................ ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................................... iii Planning Controls .................................................................................................................................................... iii Summary of Significance ......................................................................................................................................... iii Summary of Recommendations .............................................................................................................................. iv 1.0 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 The Purpose of this Report ........................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Study Team ................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.3 Copyright ....................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.4 Commissioning of this Report ........................................................................................................................ 2 1.5 The Site ......................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.6 The Heritage Overlay .................................................................................................................................... 2 1.7 Other Heritage Listings .................................................................................................................................. 4 1.8 Definitions ..................................................................................................................................................... 5 2.0 HISTORICAL ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................................. 6 2.0 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 6 2.1 Public Hospitals in Regional Victoria ............................................................................................................. 7 2.3 The Bendigo Hospital Site ............................................................................................................................. 8 2.4 Development History of Bendigo Hospital ................................................................................................... 11 2.5 Architects Associated with Bendigo Hospital ............................................................................................... 25 3.0 COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ....................................................................................................................... 27 3.1 Nineteenth Century Hospital Design ........................................................................................................... 27 3.2 Nineteenth Century Comparative Health Complexes .................................................................................. 28 3.3 Twentieth Century Contextural History ........................................................................................................ 31 3.4 Twentieth Century Comparative Architects and Dates ................................................................................ 32 4.0 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES.............................................................. 35 4.1 Assessment of Significance......................................................................................................................... 35 4.2 Grading of Significance ............................................................................................................................... 36 5.0 REPORT RECOMMENDATIONS ............................................................................................................... 39 5.1 Elements of Primary Significance ................................................................................................................ 39 5.2 Elements of Contributory Significance ......................................................................................................... 39 5.3 Elements of No Significance ........................................................................................................................ 41 5.4 New Development ....................................................................................................................................... 41 5.5 Other Recommendations ............................................................................................................................ 41 6.0 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY .......................................................................................................................... 45 APPENDIX A HERITAGE LISTINGS .............................................................................................................. 46 APPENDIX B THE BURRA CHARTER ........................................................................................................... 50 APPENDIX C DATA SHEETS .......................................................................................................................... 56 heritage ALLIANCE Job 2009-09 Bendigo Hospital – Heritage Survey i ILLUSTRATIONS & DRAWINGS Cover Historic photographs of the Bendigo Hospital from Bendigo Health Records. Figure 1 Location plan of the Bendigo Hospital Campus, .................................................................................2 Figure 2 Extract form Planning Scheme Map for the City of Greater Bendigo identifying the ...........................4 Figure 3 1854 Map of Bendigo – The first Hospital Reserve is shown circled. ..................................................9 Figure 4 Detail of Black’s Survey Plan, City of Sandhurst, Sheet 5, 1882-1884, ............................................ 10 Figure 5 The first stage of the hospital’s Central Block – 1861. ...................................................................... 12 Figure 6 The flanking wings and clock tower added to the Central Block, c.1875 ........................................... 12 Figure 7 The Gatehouse is shown in the foreground, 1874. ........................................................................... 12 Figure 8 The Bowen Wing on the right hand side, shown adjoining the Central Block, 1931. ......................... 13 Figure 9 The Bowen Wing – 1972................................................................................................................... 13 Figure 10 The Bowen Wing – 1972................................................................................................................... 13 Figure 11 The Nurses Home with the Bowen Wing on the left hand side, 1956. .............................................. 14 Figure 12 Aerial photograph of the Nurses Home with the Bowen Wing in the top left hand corner and the Pethard Wing in the bottom right corner, 1975. ................................................................................ 14 Figure 13 Aerial photograph of the Infectious Diseases Wards , 1935. ............................................................ 15 Figure 14 Infectious Diseases Wards, 1931. .................................................................................................... 15 Figure 15 Perspective Sketch of a New Building for Infectious Diseases and Tuberculosis (never constructed), 1950 .................................................................................................................................................. 16 Figure 16 Main Operating Theatre, 1931 .......................................................................................................... 17 Figure 17 Main Midwifery Ward, 1931 .............................................................................................................. 17 Figure 18 Aerial photograph – 1935, showing the Tuberculosis Chalet, with the Nurses Home on the left hand side and the Infectious Diseases Ward in the top right corner. ......................................................... 19 Figure 19 Aerial photograph – 1975, showing the later additions of flanking wings. ........................................