b'A H I S T O R Y O F C O O G E E P R E PA subsequent notice on 8th January, 1916 added:Day and Boarding School for Boys from 6 to 15. Secondary SchoolsEntranceandScholarshipExams.ResidentandVisitingStaffofTrained Masters. Physical Training and Sports in healthiest seasidesurroundings.The Church and the School are situated on one of the highestspots in the district, at Peters Corner in the commercial heart ofRandwick and at the junction (in those days) of Allison Road andthe tramline. Nimmo had decided on this area when he saw that alarge number of the pupils at his city school came to it from theresidentialsuburbsofRandwickandCoogee.AstheRandwickMunicipalitys Jubilee booklet states:The development of Randwick was gradual but definite until the year1911,whenthebigbuildingboomsetinandcontinuedrightthroughout the war period. In eight years the Council passed an aver-ageof900plansperannum.TheprogresswasmainlyinSouthKensington, South Randwick, Maroubra and Coogee, although a bigincrease in the population occurred around the Church and the TownHall. With the extension of the tramway from the race course toCoogee, the last mentioned areas became very popular.The Church itself, which was completed in 1890, is a remark-able structure and was conceived at a time of great prosperity inthecolony.ThearchitectwasJohnSulman,whoarguedthatchurchesshouldbedesignedtoaccommodatetheclimateofSydney,insteadofclingingtothetraditionalneo-gothicstyle.DrawinghisinspirationfromtheMediterranean,hesubmittedplans for a church in the style of a Greek theatre. The first planswere quite magnificent and had to be scaled down as the cost esti-mates rose. A more modest structure was built but, even so, thetwo towers which appear in the final drawings were never builtbecause of financial considerations. The Church is recorded by theNational Trust of Australia.TheMansewasbuiltin1900andin1903asinglestoreyschool Hall (known as Talbot Hall) was added to the Church toaccommodate the growing Sunday School numbers. There wereno further building plans until 1934, the Jubilee Year, when it was2 1'