 One had to look upwards to view the church and school.The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales.It meets this criterion of State significance because the Wilberforce Macquarie Schoolhouse and burial ground with its later addition of the Blacket church are the epitome of what Lachlan Macquarie wished to implement as demonstrable elements of power, education and religion.