Rose Park is a

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential. They can either be denser or less densely populated ...

with a population of 1,374 in the

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a States and territories of Australia, state in the southern central part of Australia. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, which in ...

n capital city of

Adelaide Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to ei ...

. It is located east of Adelaide's

central business district A central business district (CBD) is the Commerce, commercial and business center of a city. It contains commercial space and offices, and in larger cities will often be described as a financial district. Geographically, it often coincides wit ...

. Rose Park is a leafy, tree-lined and wealthy inner suburb containing a number of historical and contemporary attractions. Much of the area's 19th-century housing stock has been recognised with heritage protection. Part of the Burnside Council, it is bounded to the north by

Kensington Road Kensington Road is a section of road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the City of Westminster, London, forming part of the A315 road. Location and description It runs along the south edge of Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, ...

, to the east by Prescott Terrace, to the south by Dulwich Avenue and to the west by

Fullarton Road Fullarton Road is a main road in the South Australian capital city of Adelaide. Route It runs north–south in a straight line from the eastern edge of the CBD to the south-eastern suburbs of the city. Its northern beginning is at the intersect ...

. The area is mainly residential in nature, with commercial buildings along Fullarton Road, Kensington Road, and Dulwich Avenue. This places it on the very edge of the

Adelaide Park Lands The Adelaide Park Lands comprise the figure-eight configuration of land, spanning both banks of the River Torrens between Hackney and Thebarton, which encloses and separates the City of Adelaide area (including both the Adelaide city centre and ...

, bordering Victoria Park.

History

Laid out in 1878 on part section 262,

Hundred of Adelaide The Hundred of Adelaide is a cadastral hundred in the city of Adelaide spanning all the inner suburbs south of River Torrens. It is one of the eleven hundreds of the County of Adelaide, and was one of the first hundreds to be proclaimed. Like the ...

by the

South Australia Company The South Australian Company, also referred to as the South Australia Company, was formed in London on 9 October 1835, after the '' South Australia (Foundation) Act 1834'' had established the new British Province of South Australia, with the S ...

. Named after Sir John Rose, chairman of the company for fourteen years in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Rose Park Post Office opened on 1 October 1946 but was renamed ''Norwood South'' in 1966.

Heritage-listed buildings

The Gartrell Memorial Church, located on Prescott Terrace between Alexandra and Grant Avenues, was designed in 1914 by architect

Herbert Jory Harrold Herbert Jory (20 March 1888 – 16 May 1966) , known as Herbert Jory, was a South Australian architect. He was a partner in the leading firm of Woods, Bagot & Jory from 1913, which became Woods, Bagot, Jory & Laybourne Smith from 1915 t ...

in the

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style when he was in the architectural practice of Woods, Bagot & Jory, and built as a

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church in 1915. Jory also designed the Gartrell Memorial Schoolroom. The church and its hall were state heritage-listed in November 1989, with the hall estimated to be built at a later date, probably 1925. The church was named after James Gartrell, who was a parishioner and benefactor. He paid for the

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and contributed generously to its building.

Residents

In the , the population of the Rose Park was 1,374 people. This compares with 2,663 in 2001 (when the census area included adjoining

Dulwich Dulwich (; ) is an area in south London, England. The settlement is mostly in the London Borough of Southwark, with parts in the London Borough of Lambeth, and consists of Dulwich Village, East Dulwich, West Dulwich, and the Southwark half of H ...

) with a very slight decrease in population between the 1996 and 2001 censuses.Community Profile for Dulwich/Rose Park
City of Burnside In the , the population of the Rose Park (without Dulwich) was 1,293 people. In 2016 there were 352 families in 615 private dwellings, with a median weekly household income of . Notable residents include

Albert Fryar Albert Edmund Fryar (2 December 1875 – 23 July 1944) was a noted South Australian philatelist and sportsman.

and

Andrew Fairweather Andrew Fairweather (31 May 1882 – 4 May 1962) was a mine manager in Broken Hill, New South Wales. History Fairweather was born in Adelaide, son of marine engineer Andrew Abercrombie Fairweather (1855–1940) and his wife Cecilia Russell Fairweat ...

Education

Rose Park Primary School is located in Rose Park. The Adelaide Japanese Community School, Inc. (ACJS; アデレード日本語補習授業校 ''Aderēdo Nihongo Hoshū Jugyō Kō''), a part-time Japanese educational programme, holds its classes in Rose Park Primary School.

Politics

Rose Park is part of the state

electoral district of Bragg Bragg is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. The seat is named after the eminent physicists Bragg – William Henry and his son, William Lawrence. The electorate is largely suburban and encompasses a s ...

, which has been held by

Jack Batty Jack Andrew Batty (born 14 October 1990) is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the South Australian House of Assembly since a July 2022 by-election, representing the electorate of Bragg. Prior to ent ...

since the

2022 Bragg state by-election A by-election for the seat of Bragg in the South Australian House of Assembly was held on 2 July 2022. The by-election was triggered by the parliamentary resignation of Liberal Party MP and former Deputy Premier Vickie Chapman on 31 May 2022 ...

. The suburb briefly formed part of the

electoral district of Dunstan Dunstan is a single-member Electoral districts of South Australia, electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly, covering the inner eastern suburbs of Beulah Park, South Australia, Beulah Park, College Park, South Australia, Coll ...

and was represented by South Australian Premier

Steven Marshall Steven Spence Marshall (born 21 January 1968) is a former Australian politician who served as the 46th premier of South Australia between 2018 and 2022. He was a member of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia in the ...

during this time. In federal politics, the suburb has been part of the

Division of Sturt The Division of Sturt is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in South Australia. It was proclaimed at the South Australian redistribution of 11 May 1949. Sturt was named for Captain Charles St ...

since 20 July 2018, and has been represented by

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MP Claire Clutterham since the 2025 election. Rose Park was formerly in the

division of Adelaide The Division of Adelaide is an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian electoral division in South Australia and is named for the city of Adelaide, South Australia's capital. At the 2016 Australian federal election, 2 ...

and was represented by

MP Kate Ellis from 2004 until her retirement in 2019.

References and notes

External links

Rose Park Primary School
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