Erskine College, Wellington

Erskine College was a Catholic girls' boarding school in Island Bay, Wellington, New Zealand, and the subject of a campaign to protect its historic buildings (the Chapel of the Sacred Heart and the Main Block Convent).

[1] The four-storey Gothic Revival brick and reinforced concrete convent building was designed by architect John Sydney Swan and built between 1904 and 1906.

It was named after Mother Janet Erskine Stuart, the fifth Superior General of the Society of the Sacred Heart.

[1] The buildings served as a Catholic girls' boarding school until its closure in 1985.

[1] The college buildings, with the exception of the chapel, were controversially demolished by its owners The Wellington Company in 2018, to make way for 96 townhouses.

The Erskine College building being demolished in October 2018