The King's School
Australia / Parramatta North, New South Wales
Location ID: #10453
Kings was established in 1831 the most significant school for young gentlemen of its time in the colony. Its site at Parramatta was perhaps symbolic, for this was the site of the first real agriculture in the colony. Spread over 300 acres of woodland in the geographical heart of Sydney, it represents an oasis of learning in Australia's largest city. The white picket fences of its main oval, the carved sandstone of its neo-gothic chapel serve as a gracious introduction to a school that successfully relocated in the 1960s from its Parramatta site and occupation of the Old Government House to its current generous setting just a few kilometres away.