Christchurch Schools

Christchurch Schools is a school building dated 1887, constructed of red brick with moulded brick dressings and a plain-tile roof. It features a wooden lantern with a lead ogee roof and is designed in the Flemish Gothic style. The building is single storey and has a ten-window range, all with small-paned windows. There are facing gables at either end and a pair of smaller gables in the center. To the right, there is a projecting porch with a basket-arched moulded doorway and double leaf plank doors. Above the doorway is a moulded plaque inscribed with "CHRISTCHURCH SCHOOLS 1887." The front of the building is characterized by moulded string courses and decorative hood moulds, as well as buttresses and buttress-like panels between the windows. At the roof ridge, there is a wooden and lead lantern with an ogee roof and a spirelet.