The Door of St Laurence's Catholic Presbytery - Ogilvy Street, Leongatha

            The foundation stone of the Catholic Presbytery at 31 Ogilvy Street, Leongatha was laid on Sunday the 24th of January, 1904 by the Most Rev. Dr. Corbett, Bishop of Sale. Dr Corbett congratulated the residents on the progress they had made and concluded: "The magnificent presbytery was an edifice worthy of a generous people, and a devoted Pastor."

Construction of the Presbytery was undertaken during 1903 and 1904 by Mr Deane and was the first stage of an ambitious building program initiated by Rev. (later Dean) P. J. Coyne, first appointed to the newly created Leongatha Parish in 1901. It is believed that the architect was T. A. Payne. Subsequent buildings included the new brick Church in 1913 (to replace the original timber Church constructed in 1895), the Convent in 1914 and the Parish Hall in 1927.

The Catholic Presbytery at 31 Ogilvy Street, Leongatha is a brick hipped roof Federation bungalow with the wide three sided verandah contiguous with the main roof at a slightly lesser pitch. It has a small original projecting hip at roughly the centre of the west side and a larger hip added in the interwar or early post war period at the north-west corner. The roof is of glazed terra cotta tiles of possibly immediate post war origin. These alterations may conceal more substantial changes such as the change of roof form and roofing material from corrugated iron to tiles and the removal of the verandah to the north-west corner. Early photographs need to be studied in order to understand this building. The other major change is the loss of the original verandah valance, assumed to have been of timber. Other surviving significant elements include: symmetrically arranged chimneys with double moulded caps and tabs, turned verandah posts with neck moulds and front scroll brackets supporting bracketed eaves and standing on low brick pads, single double hung windows, rendered string courses (now painted) and a concrete verandah floor, possibly originally of asphalt.

Leongatha is a town in the foothills of the Strzelecki Ranges, South Gippsland Shire, Victoria, Australia, located 135 kilometres south-east of Melbourne. The town is the civic, commercial, industrial, religious, educational and sporting centre of the region.   The Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co. Limited, is a farmers' co-operative which trades in Australia under the Devondale label, and has a dairy processing plant just north of the town producing milk-based products for Australian and overseas markets.  First settlement of the area by Europeans occurred in 1845. The Post Office opened as Koorooman on 1 October 1887 and renamed Leongatha in 1891 when a township was established on the arrival of the railway.  The Daffodil Festival is held annually in September. Competitions are held and many daffodil varieties are on display. A garden competition is also held and there are many beautiful examples throughout the provincial town.  The South Gippsland Railway runs historical diesel locomotives and railcars between the market and dairy towns of Nyora and Leongatha, passing through Korumburra.

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Taken on: January 10, 2013

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