Gilles Street

Gilles Street

South Australia
Gilles Street in 2010
Map
Gilles Street is located in City of Adelaide
West end
West end
East end
East end
Coordinates
General information
TypeStreet
LocationAdelaide city centre
Length1.6 km (1.0 mi)[1]
Opened1837
Major junctions
West endKing William Street
Adelaide
 
East endEast Terrace
Adelaide
Location(s)
LGA(s)City of Adelaide
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Gilles Street is a thoroughfare in the south-eastern sector of the centre of Adelaide, South Australia.[2][3] It runs east–west between East Terrace and King William Street, crossing Hutt Street and Pulteney Street. It was named after Osmond Gilles, an early treasurer of the colony of South Australia on 23 May 1837.[4][5]

This heritage-listed building in Gilles Street traded variously as the Beresford Arms and later Oddfellows Arms from 1840 until 1861, and was sold to a German printer in 1873. The early landowner, following subdivision of the original acre plot, was John Martin, known also for his founding connection with John Martin's[6]

Gilles Street is one of the narrower streets of the Adelaide grid, at 1 chain (66 ft; 20 m) wide. Two school properties adjoin near the western end: Gilles Street Primary School and Pulteney Grammar School.

  1. ^ "Gilles Street" (Map). Google Maps. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  2. ^ 2003 Adelaide Street Directory, 41st Edition. UBD (A Division of Universal Press Pty Ltd). 2003. ISBN 0-7319-1441-4.
  3. ^ Map Archived 25 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine of the Adelaide CBD, North Adelaide and the Adelaide Parklands.
  4. ^ "Gilles Street Primary School - History". 25 February 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
  5. ^ "History of Adelaide Through Street Names - Streets Named on the 23rd May, 1837". 4 March 2005. Archived from the original on 19 February 2009. Retrieved 24 April 2009.
  6. ^ Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities: Australian Heritage Database