Rockhampton Girls Grammar School
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Rockhampton Girls Grammar School, Paterson House, 2009
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| Location | 155 Agnes Street, The Range, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 23°23′18″S 150°29′46″E / 23.3883°S 150.496°ECoordinates: 23°23′18″S 150°29′46″E / 23.3883°S 150.496°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1890 |
| Architect | Edwin Morton Hockings |
| Architectural style(s) | Gothic |
| Official name: Rockhampton Girls Grammar School | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 20 October 2000 |
| Reference no. | 600780 |
| Significant period | 1890s-1900s (fabric) 1870s (historical) |
| Significant components | school/school room, garden/grounds |
| Builders | Moir Cousins and Co |
 Location of Rockhampton Girls Grammar School in Queensland
Location of Rockhampton Girls Grammar School in Queensland
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Rockhampton Girls Grammar School is a heritage-listed private school at 155 Agnes Street, The Range, Rockhampton, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Edwin Morton Hockings and built in 1890 by Moir Cousins and Co. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 20 October 2000.
The Rockhampton Girls Grammar School opened in April 1892 under foundation Headmistress Helen Downs. It was the ninth of the grammar schools to be established in Queensland and the third grammar school for girls. As with the other grammar schools, it was constituted under the Grammar Schools Act of 1860, one of the first pieces of legislation passed by the Queensland Parliament, which encouraged by way of grants of land and subsidies, the establishment of non government secular schools for secondary education within the colony. As Queensland was not establishing state high schools until the 1910s, nor the principal of universal secondary education until the 1960s, the state assisted (albeit independent) grammar schools represented the defacto state secondary school system.
From its establishment in 1881, the Rockhampton Grammar School (located nearby on the Athelstane Range overlooking Rockhampton) had included both a boys and a (smaller) girls department. The Government, however, refused to recognise the separate departments as entitled to separate subsidies under the Act, and as a consequence the Trustees soon insisted on a separate grammar school for girls. In 1886 the Girls Department was closed. The issue of education for women continued to be raised in the press, although, it was not until 1890 that sufficient funds were raised (via private and government subsidies) to proceed with the founding of the new school. In that year, competitive designs were called for a building suitable for a Girls Grammar School, providing residence accommodation for Headmistress and Staff, 20 Boarders, also School accommodation for 50 Scholars, with necessary classrooms etc. The building was to be of brick with the total cost not to exceed £4,000. Thirty-two entries were received with first prize awarded to Edwin Morton Hockings of Brisbane and second to James Flint of Rockhampton. Brisbane architect, Richard Gailey, objected however to the awarding of the prize to Hockings on the grounds that the plans were prepared whilst Hockings was articled to Gailey as his pupil. At Gailey's request, the first prize was recorded as his, with Hockings appointed clerk of works.
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