St Sebastian's Primary School (Yeronga)

Name: St Sebastian's Primary School (Yeronga)

Time: 1937 - Current

Epoch: Early 20th Century

Category: Catholic Primary School

Institution Category: Education

Institution Group: Primary

Coordinates: -27.513695, 153.010555

Street Address: 141 Kadiumba St, Yeronga

Suburb: Yeronga

Sector: Independent \'Catholic\'

Local Study Area: Yeronga

Study Stage: MBSH Stage 2 Local Study Areas

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This Catholic spiritual and educational precinct was another of Archbishop James Duhig’s interwar construction program. The aim was to provide a Catholic building presence in each of Brisbane’s new post-WWI suburbs. The Yeronga part of this program of ‘Duhig the Builder’ was unusual, as the church and school buildings were constructed at the same time, during the Great Depression (1929-39). The norm, due to the Depression’s effect on finances, was to build the church first and the school later. Thus the consecration and opening of the St Sebastian’s precinct in 1937 was unusual or the time.

Geographic Description 1: Inside The Green Belt

Geographic Description 2: Brisbane River

Geographic Description 3: Flood Plains; Flood Gullies; Hills

Citations

Brisbane City Council, Heritage Register Summary, https://heritage.brisbane.qld.gov.au/heritage_register/placeDetail.do?action=read&placeId=1986&fullDetail=true&navParam=startBasic

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