31 Avon Street, Island Bay, Wellington City

Erskine College

Wellington City Community Halls

Erskine College was a collection of historic buildings and landscapes (including the Chapel of the Sacred Heart and Main Block Convent) on a hill-side site in Island Bay. Built from 1905-6 by the Society of Sacred Heart (Sacré Coeur), the buildings served as a Catholic girls' boarding school (Convent of the Sacred Heart at Island Bay) until its closure in 1985.

In the early 1990s as a result of local concern a Trust was established to save the site as a community asset. Occupied for a time by an art school the building was declared unsafe in 2012. The site is now being developed by the Wellington Company (Ian Cassels) to include 96 town houses with the retention, restoration and earthquake strengthening of the Gothic chapel.

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