 It meets this criterion of State significance because the Wilberforce Schoolhouse was erected to meet the desire of Governor Lachlan Macquarie to promote education and religion at the core of the towns he laid out on the Hawkesbury.His scheme of establishing a school, church and burial ground at an elevated and/or central position was fully realised at Wilberforce during his governorship.He chose the sites of the town, church and burial ground personally.