University of Queensland Mayne Medical School
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Mayne Medical School
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| Location | 288 Herston Road, Herston, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 27°26′55″S 153°01′26″E / 27.4487°S 153.0239°ECoordinates: 27°26′55″S 153°01′26″E / 27.4487°S 153.0239°E |
| Design period | 1919–1930s (interwar period) |
| Built | 1938–39 |
| Built for | University of Queensland |
| Architect | Raymond Clare Nowland |
| Architectural style(s) | Classicism |
| Owner | University of Queensland |
| Official name: University of Queensland Medical School, Mayne Medical School | |
| Type | state heritage (landscape, built) |
| Designated | 24 June 1999 |
| Reference no. | 601167 |
| Significant period | 1930s (historical) 1930s (fabric) 1930s ongoing (social) |
| Significant components | views to, school/school room, fence/wall – perimeter, views from, dome, garden/grounds |
 Location of University of Queensland Mayne Medical School in Queensland
Location of University of Queensland Mayne Medical School in Queensland
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University of Queensland Mayne Medical School is a heritage-listed university building at 288 Herston Road, Herston, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Raymond Clare Nowland and built from 1938 to 1939. It is also known as University of Queensland Medical School. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 24 June 1999.
A monumental, three-storey, red facebrick building in a Renaissance idiom occupying a ridge adjacent to the Royal Brisbane Hospital and overlooking Victoria Park at Herston, the Mayne Medical School was opened by the Premier of Queensland, Hon. William Forgan Smith, on 11 August 1939.
The establishment of the Mayne Medical School was a significant moment for the State of Queensland and for the medical profession.
There were earnest attempts to form a medical school for Queensland over many decades. During the 1870s and 1880s medical personnel from the Brisbane Hospital and the British Medical Association in Queensland advocated the establishment of a medical school. In 1893 the President of the Queensland Medical Society renewed calls for the establishment of a university and a faculty of medicine. In 1913, in the early days of the newly formed University of Queensland, there were further pleas for a medical school.
In 1935, the Forgan Smith Government appointed a committee to investigate proposals to create a Faculty of Medicine within the University. When the Faculty of Medicine was established, the Government agreed to fund the building of a medical school despite the committee recommendation that makeshift provisions for accommodation were to be preferred to further delay in its establishment: "...the Government, after due consideration, decided to provide buildings worthy of the new venture". Recognised as the founders of the Faculty of Medicine, Ernest Sandford Jackson, Ernest James Goddard, James Vincent Duhig and Errol Solomon Meyers were instrumental in convincing the Government to fund the construction of the Medical School.
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