State Heritage Place - Former Hindmarsh Model School built by James Shaw of Glen Osmond bluestone: opening 1878. South Australia
Former Hindmarsh Model School [plaque on building]
State Heritage Place
Built by James Shaw and designed to accommodate 1000 students, the Hindmarsh Model Boys School was opened in July 1878.
The Gothic style building and bell tower, built of Glen Osmond bluestone with bi-coloured brick dressings, was a significant part of the streetscape of historic Orsmond Street. The school’s name was later changed to Hindmarsh Primary School, and it began to admit girls as well as boys.
In 1910 a High School was established here but was later transferred to Woodville.
OFFICIAL OPENING OF HINDMARSH MODEL SCHOOL
The new Model School at Hindmarsh was officially opened by the Minister of Education (Hon N Blyth) on Friday, July 5. The school, which is centrally situated, is one of the largest and best buildings that has yet been erected in the colony. It is built of Glen Osmond stone with brick dressings, and has no pretensions to the ornamental in its style of architecture, but wears a handsome appearance because of its completeness.
Over the main entrance is a bell tower, and the various schoolrooms form the three sides of a quadrangle, the whole being on the ground floor. Entering a spacious hall the visitor perceives the master's room facing the entrance, and on the left the boy's, and on the right the girls' schoolroom. In the front or south portion of the building are a boy's schoolroom 54 ft x 24 ft, and classroom 18 ft x 24 ft and girls' school and classroom of the same dimensions.
On the west is another classroom 25 ft 6 in x 24 ft, and boys' schoolroom 54 ft x 24 ft. On the east are two similar rooms for girls, and the infants' school 45 ft x24ft, and classroom 18 ft x 24 ft.
A spacious and lofty corridor, well paved, extends through the whole building, and besides serving the purpose of hat and cloak room permits easy access to any of the departments by the master and teachers, and to the lavatories and outer offices by the scholars. The corridor is so wide that in summer time classes may be held or drill instruction given there in the shade instead of in the open playground, where the children would be exposed to the heat of the sun.
Shelter sheds stand in the corners of the playground, but while these are used in the intervals allowed for recreation the corridor will be available at all times and in all kinds of weather, and will be of great service in relieving the crowded state of the rooms when the school contains its full complement of a thousand scholars.
The area on which the building stands is enclosed with a substantial brick wall at the sides and rear, and a low wall and ornamental iron railing in front. A great deal of cost and trouble was incurred in levelling the ground, and the Hindmarsh Corporation should at once cause the ugly and dangerous hole outside the eastern wall to be filled up.
The contract for the school was accepted in July, 1877, and the building was finished in May of this year, at a cost of £7,466, the contractor being Mr Jas Shaw, who deserves credit for the manner in which the work has been carried out.
As proving the necessity which existed for so spacious a public school in that neighbourhood (the population of which is fast increasing) there are already nearly 600 children on the rolls, although the school was first opened for tuition on Monday last.
The head teacher is Mr W J Young AB, TCD, a gentleman who has gained other than collegiate distinctions in the old country, and who seems to be very well qualified for his responsible position. His principal assistants are Mr W J Kennedy, from the best school in Victoria (Hamilton): Mrs Maddison, head mistress of girls (from the same place): and Miss Stone, first assistant of girls also from Victoria. All the other assistants and pupil teachers are South Australians.
When the minister arrived at 3pm on Friday he was accompanied by Mr Hartley President of the Council of Education, by Mr Madley, Principal of the Training School, and by Mr Inspector Dewhirst. The visitors were met by Mr J Pickering JP, Mr Lees (Chairman of the Board of Advice), Mr Powell, and other residents of Hindmarsh, but the Mayor and Councillors were conspicuous by their absence.
The proceedings were opened by the Minister passing through the various rooms, making the acquaintance of the principal teachers, and observing the mode of instruction pursued after the children had been put through the various schoolroom exercises.
All the visitors and residents, to the number of upwards of a hundred, then adjourned to a room which had been left vacant, where the Minister delivered a few remarks prior to declaring the school open for public instruction.
Mr Pickering thanked the Minister for his attendance, and said that Hindmarsh was proud of possessing a building which he believed could not be equalled in the colony. He hoped the Board of Advice would take an active part in making the school successful, and that something would be done for the education, of the boys who were compelled to work during the day, and upon whose labours their mothers (many of them widows) were mainly dependent.
Mr Lees, as Chairman of the Board of Advice and President of the Hindmarsh Institute, congratulated the Minister upon the opening of the school, which he rejoiced to see, and said the education of which the foundation was laid there would be improved in after years by such places as the Institute of which he had the honour to be President. The erection of a school building of this kind would stimulate the residents of Hindmarsh to make their Institute more worthy of the town.
The proceedings terminated with cheers for the Minister, Mr. Hartley, and the master. [Ref: South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (Adelaide) 13-7-1878]
State Heritage Place - Former Hindmarsh Model School built by James Shaw of Glen Osmond bluestone: opening 1878. South Australia
Former Hindmarsh Model School [plaque on building]
State Heritage Place
Built by James Shaw and designed to accommodate 1000 students, the Hindmarsh Model Boys School was opened in July 1878.
The Gothic style building and bell tower, built of Glen Osmond bluestone with bi-coloured brick dressings, was a significant part of the streetscape of historic Orsmond Street. The school’s name was later changed to Hindmarsh Primary School, and it began to admit girls as well as boys.
In 1910 a High School was established here but was later transferred to Woodville.
OFFICIAL OPENING OF HINDMARSH MODEL SCHOOL
The new Model School at Hindmarsh was officially opened by the Minister of Education (Hon N Blyth) on Friday, July 5. The school, which is centrally situated, is one of the largest and best buildings that has yet been erected in the colony. It is built of Glen Osmond stone with brick dressings, and has no pretensions to the ornamental in its style of architecture, but wears a handsome appearance because of its completeness.
Over the main entrance is a bell tower, and the various schoolrooms form the three sides of a quadrangle, the whole being on the ground floor. Entering a spacious hall the visitor perceives the master's room facing the entrance, and on the left the boy's, and on the right the girls' schoolroom. In the front or south portion of the building are a boy's schoolroom 54 ft x 24 ft, and classroom 18 ft x 24 ft and girls' school and classroom of the same dimensions.
On the west is another classroom 25 ft 6 in x 24 ft, and boys' schoolroom 54 ft x 24 ft. On the east are two similar rooms for girls, and the infants' school 45 ft x24ft, and classroom 18 ft x 24 ft.
A spacious and lofty corridor, well paved, extends through the whole building, and besides serving the purpose of hat and cloak room permits easy access to any of the departments by the master and teachers, and to the lavatories and outer offices by the scholars. The corridor is so wide that in summer time classes may be held or drill instruction given there in the shade instead of in the open playground, where the children would be exposed to the heat of the sun.
Shelter sheds stand in the corners of the playground, but while these are used in the intervals allowed for recreation the corridor will be available at all times and in all kinds of weather, and will be of great service in relieving the crowded state of the rooms when the school contains its full complement of a thousand scholars.
The area on which the building stands is enclosed with a substantial brick wall at the sides and rear, and a low wall and ornamental iron railing in front. A great deal of cost and trouble was incurred in levelling the ground, and the Hindmarsh Corporation should at once cause the ugly and dangerous hole outside the eastern wall to be filled up.
The contract for the school was accepted in July, 1877, and the building was finished in May of this year, at a cost of £7,466, the contractor being Mr Jas Shaw, who deserves credit for the manner in which the work has been carried out.
As proving the necessity which existed for so spacious a public school in that neighbourhood (the population of which is fast increasing) there are already nearly 600 children on the rolls, although the school was first opened for tuition on Monday last.
The head teacher is Mr W J Young AB, TCD, a gentleman who has gained other than collegiate distinctions in the old country, and who seems to be very well qualified for his responsible position. His principal assistants are Mr W J Kennedy, from the best school in Victoria (Hamilton): Mrs Maddison, head mistress of girls (from the same place): and Miss Stone, first assistant of girls also from Victoria. All the other assistants and pupil teachers are South Australians.
When the minister arrived at 3pm on Friday he was accompanied by Mr Hartley President of the Council of Education, by Mr Madley, Principal of the Training School, and by Mr Inspector Dewhirst. The visitors were met by Mr J Pickering JP, Mr Lees (Chairman of the Board of Advice), Mr Powell, and other residents of Hindmarsh, but the Mayor and Councillors were conspicuous by their absence.
The proceedings were opened by the Minister passing through the various rooms, making the acquaintance of the principal teachers, and observing the mode of instruction pursued after the children had been put through the various schoolroom exercises.
All the visitors and residents, to the number of upwards of a hundred, then adjourned to a room which had been left vacant, where the Minister delivered a few remarks prior to declaring the school open for public instruction.
Mr Pickering thanked the Minister for his attendance, and said that Hindmarsh was proud of possessing a building which he believed could not be equalled in the colony. He hoped the Board of Advice would take an active part in making the school successful, and that something would be done for the education, of the boys who were compelled to work during the day, and upon whose labours their mothers (many of them widows) were mainly dependent.
Mr Lees, as Chairman of the Board of Advice and President of the Hindmarsh Institute, congratulated the Minister upon the opening of the school, which he rejoiced to see, and said the education of which the foundation was laid there would be improved in after years by such places as the Institute of which he had the honour to be President. The erection of a school building of this kind would stimulate the residents of Hindmarsh to make their Institute more worthy of the town.
The proceedings terminated with cheers for the Minister, Mr. Hartley, and the master. [Ref: South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail (Adelaide) 13-7-1878]