Sunday School House
By 1845 the Church of England was established in their new place of worship. Voluntary contributions had been received to build a fine Sunday School House.
The designer was Everard James Blackburn who later went on to survey Melbourne and was founder of that city’s water supply (the Tasmanian links with the founding of Melbourne are very deep). A suburb of Melbourne is named after him. But Dr William Valentine (whom we met yesterday with his fine house "The Grange") also figures in this story too.
You see Dr Valentine was one of the major drivers in getting this building constructed, and as Geoff Ritchie from "On the Convict Trail" points out (thanks Geoff!), the building bears a strong resemblance to the primary school in Martock, Somerset, England where Dr Valentine was born. ontheconvicttrail.blogspot.com/2015/05/this-building-was-...
Although serving as a Sunday School, from 1851 until a new school was built in 1878, it acted as the town's day school as well.
Sunday School House
By 1845 the Church of England was established in their new place of worship. Voluntary contributions had been received to build a fine Sunday School House.
The designer was Everard James Blackburn who later went on to survey Melbourne and was founder of that city’s water supply (the Tasmanian links with the founding of Melbourne are very deep). A suburb of Melbourne is named after him. But Dr William Valentine (whom we met yesterday with his fine house "The Grange") also figures in this story too.
You see Dr Valentine was one of the major drivers in getting this building constructed, and as Geoff Ritchie from "On the Convict Trail" points out (thanks Geoff!), the building bears a strong resemblance to the primary school in Martock, Somerset, England where Dr Valentine was born. ontheconvicttrail.blogspot.com/2015/05/this-building-was-...
Although serving as a Sunday School, from 1851 until a new school was built in 1878, it acted as the town's day school as well.