Mowbray House School was an independent, day and boarding school for boys, located in Chatswood, on the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The school was opened in 1906 as the Chatswood Preparatory School by Lancelot Bavin (1881-1956). Bavin initially ran the school with his wife, Ida, and his mother, Emma (1845-1931), the widow of Methodist Minister the Rev. Rainsford Bavin (1845-1905). In 1914 Sandy Phillips, until then a maste...
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Mowbray House School was an independent, day and boarding school for boys, located in Chatswood, on the North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The school was opened in 1906 as the Chatswood Preparatory School by Lancelot Bavin (1881-1956). Bavin initially ran the school with his wife, Ida, and his mother, Emma (1845-1931), the widow of Methodist Minister the Rev. Rainsford Bavin (1845-1905). In 1914 Sandy Phillips, until then a master at Sydney Grammar School, became co-headmaster with Bavin and the institution became known as Mowbray House School. Bavin and Phillips had been students together at Newington College. Phillips remained at Mowbray House until his return to Sydney Grammar in 1924, where he ultimately became Headmaster. Bavin continued as Headmaster of Mowbray House until the school closed in 1954 due to his ill-health.
Mowbray House was built in 1906 and is a two storey tuck pointed face brick building with a hipped tile roof and cream cement render on the...
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