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entrance. A range of much smaller, simpler rural schools, sometimes in timber, were also designed. Schools of the later 1870s and the 1880s were more elaborate, with polychrome brickwork, Gothic traceried windows and prominent towers, some with a more Queen Anne or Tudor character. By the early 1880s, the department had built over 600 schools across
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style, usually picturesque, but some symmetrical, with walls of face brick, in brown or red brick, a few in bluestone, with highlights in contrasting brickwork, low pointed arch windows, steep slate roofs, prominent gables, some with jerkinhead roofs, and a prominent bell tower, usually over the
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Williamstown State School 1878, a design executed in bluestone
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