Geelong Grammar

School (former)

Geelong Historic Buildings

The Geelong Grammar School when completed in 1857 was the most substantial work of Backhouse and Reynolds, a celebrated Geelong firm of architects whose reputation was largely based on the scholarly Italianate design for the Matthew Flinders School at Geelong. The surviving south wing, which is not indicative of the overall quadrangular school design, is a physical manifestation of the foundation years of the Geelong Grammar School, Victoria`s most prestigious public school

All that remains of the old Geelong Grammar School, a once imposing Tudor Gothic style quadrangular school building, is the two storey south wing. This complex was constructed in 1857 from premiated competition designs by Geelong architects Backhouse and Reynolds and the south wing, which contained the master`s residence, was built of cement rendered basalt with steep roof gables, decorated barges and attic dormers.