The Victorian School For Deaf Children - St Kilda Road

            The impressive Victorian Gothic edifice of the Victorian College for the Deaf stands proudly on their original grounds on the corner of High Street and Melbourne's grand boulevard of St Kilda Road where it has stood for nearly one hundred and sixty years.

Victorian College for the Deaf is Victoria's oldest deaf school, opening in 1860.  The grand building is socially and historically significant at state level because the Victorian School for Deaf Children (originally known as the Deaf and Dumb Institution), has played a pioneering role in the history of the welfare of the deaf in Victoria.

Designed by architects Crouch and Wilson, the Gothic Revival school was erected between 1866 and 1871 to educate the many children who suffered deafness through the high incidence of disease and accident in the infant colony of Victoria. The development of the school is associated with the growth of many important Melbourne educational and social welfare institutions established in the two decades following the population explosion of the gold rush.

The school has architectural significance as an imposing design in the institutional Early English Gothic Style and is a major work of the notable architects Crouch and Wilson, who were among the most prolific Melbourne Nineteenth Century architectural practicioners and designed other important Victorian buildings.

The Victorian School for the Deaf, the neighbouring Wesley College, and the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind all have extensive grounds facing St Kilda Road.

Crouch and Wilson was an architectural practice based in Melbourne, Australia in the late nineteenth century. The partnership, between Tasmanian-born Thomas Crouch and recently arrived Londoner Ralph Wilson, commenced in 1857 in Elizabeth Street. The firm designed numerous prominent Melbourne buildings including many Presbyterian and Wesleyan churches. After the deaths of the partners in the late 1880s, their sons continued on with the business until its closure in 1916.  Buildings of note include the Prahran Town Hall, Chapel Street, Prahran in 1861, the Durham Street Methodist Church in Christchurch in 1864, the Victorian School for the Deaf on St Kilda Road between1866 and 1871, the Royal Victorian Institute for the Blind on St Kilda Road in 1868, the Weslyan Methodist Church in Davey Street Hobart in 1870, the Chinese Mission Church in Little Bourke Street in1872, Hawksburn Primary School in Malvern Road in Hawksburn in 1874, the Church Of The Immaculate Conception in Hawthorn in 1867, the Colombo Street Methodist Church in Christchurch in 1877 (now demolished), the East Melbourne Synagogue in 1877, 
Methodist Ladies' College in Hawthorn in 1882 and the Homeopathic Hospital (later Prince Henry's Hospital), St Kilda Road between 1882 and 1884 (now demolished).

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Taken on: June 8, 2020

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