The first school started in 1865 in a building constructed to be both the school and the Primitive Methodist church . Grace Plains School opened in 1894 and closed in 1969 . It also had a Methodist ( originally Bible Christian ) Church , which opened in 1868 and closed in 1971 . The church is now a private residence and the former school was destroyed in the 2015 Pinery bushfire . The former recreation reserve ' Moquet Lee ' is located behind the church where there is also the Grace Plains cemetery
2015 Pinery bushfire
2015 Pinery bushfire
Grace Plains, South Australia