Deloraine Probation Station Chapel

Built as a Punishment Station. This is part of a report by Isabel Bird in the Examiner newspaper in December 1911.

A CAR park built on the site of an old convict probation station will become a place of historical interpretation.

The Deloraine probation station, which operated from 1843 to 1847, will be remembered through interpretative signage located at the car park.

The site will be renamed the Probation Station Reserve.

Meander Valley Council archaeological consultant Jane Becker said the reserve would inform the public of its history.

Described as follows in Ian Brand, The Convict Probation System.

The chapel is built of wood but badly planned and erected, the foundation is bad. In the summer a night school is held in the chapel ...