Sunday, 3 July 2016

Rockdale, St Joseph's Catholic Primary School

St Joseph's Catholic Primary School is located along Parker Street, in the southern suburb of Rockdale. This heritage listed building was originally a church and school, built in 1929 in the Romanesque style.

19 comments:

  1. A tall, imposing building... especially impressive on the street corner.

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  2. I agree with Gemma, very imposing. The first word I thought was Staunch looking. I can just picture old time Nun's in their Penguin suits glaring at the children to impose domination over them.

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  3. Such an imposing building! Was it always a school?

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    1. Siddhartha, I've just done some more research and discovered it was built as a school on the site which includes a church and convent.

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  4. Hello Jim!
    Beautiful building catholic school.
    Greetings from Poland.
    Lucja

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    1. Kathe, yes it is. The first link leads you to their website.

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  6. around here there are few Catholic primary schools.

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  7. hey, Jim. i enjoy all the windows, i bet it is great for the kids to stare out them and just day dream. fun, right? ( ;

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  8. You do not see many schools like this today. As always, enjoy what you share.

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  9. There is such a starkness to it with no landscaping around it. I can picture nuns ruling the hallways!

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  10. That's a grand looking building. I've always enjoyed brick buildings for some reason.

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  11. It's so good to see this photo. My great grandfather was the builder.

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