St Patrick's Schoolhouse

St Patrick’s Schoolhouse is one of the State’s oldest surviving school buildings and is the oldest bespoke Catholic school building in South Australia. Erected in 1848, St Patrick’s Schoolhouse demonstrates the emergence and evolution of schooling in South Australia and specifically Bishop Francis Murphy’s efforts to establish Catholic education. It is also a rare example of a school built prior to the first Education Act of 1851.

Listing Information

• Date of Listing: 15 February 2024

• Heritage Listing Criteria:
  

  Criteria A: it demonstrates important aspects of the evolution or pattern of the State's history;

  Criteria B: it has rare, uncommon or endangered qualities that are of cultural significance;

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