New Zealand Churches: 11/03/2012

17 March 2012

Waikato Churches

St Andrews Anglican Church
113 Victoria St
Cambridge, Waikato
Photo taken 7 Jun 2009

St John's Anglican Church
Cnr Gilmour and Seddon Sts
Waihi, Waikato

Showing exterior view of St Johns Church, Waihi from the 'Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-6435', no longer has it's bell tower.

The War Memorial Lych Gate at St John’s Church in Waihi.
Photos taken 15 Jun 2008

Coromandel Peninsula Churches

All Saints Anglican Church
State Highway 25
Manaia, Coromandel
Photo taken 4 Jun 2007

Christ Church
180 Tiki Rd
Coromandel
Photo taken 4 Jun 2007

Showing crowd outside Christ Church
Thames Coromandel Region
From the 'Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, 4-6351'. It looks quite different to the photo above so it must have been remodelled at some stage.

Auckland Churches

St Stephen's Anglican Chapel
Judges Bay
Auckland City

St Stephen’s Chapel was one of the first Gothic Revival churches commissioned by Bishop Selwyn. The chapel was built in 1857 & has a Greek Cross plan. It was originally built for the signing of the Constitution of the United Church of England & Ireland in NZ.
Photo taken 6 Nov 2009

Chapel of Faith in the Oaks
Waikumete Cemetery
Glen Eden, Waitakere

This Chapel was built in 1886 as a mortuary Chapel. It was used to conduct burial services until the present Chapel complex was built in 1952. It is now the scene of weddings, blessings and funeral services, it is also used for numerous film location shoots. With the dissolution of the Chapel of Faith in the Oaks Trust, management reverted back to Council during 2008.
Category I heritage building, finely detailed, small masonry Chapel building with plaster walls & pitched slate roof, built 1880s.
Photo taken 6 Jan 2007

Samoan Seventh-Day Adventist Church
29 Margan Ave
New Lynn, Auckland
Photo taken 15 Mar 2012

St Austell's Methodist-Presbyterian Church
35 Margan Ave
New Lynn, Auckland
Photo taken 15 Mar 2012

St Andrews Church Hall (Presbyterian)
22 Margan Ave (cnr Rankin Ave)
New Lynn, Auckland

Stone was laid on 19 Jan 1929, built by the Rev W P Rankin, Minister of St Andrews Church. Architect Clinton H Savage. Bricks donated by Gardner Bros & Parker. The Land donated by the NZ Brick & Tile Co. Joinery donated by Fletcher Construction Co. Voluntary Carpentry by George E McWhirter & Albert Overington, New Lynn.
Unfortunately lying derelict for many years & is now for sale, potential buyers are being put off by it's heritage category 2 status & possibly the two Pohutukawa trees that are also protected.
Photo taken 15 Mar 2012

Pulela'a
Tongan Methodist Church
39-43 Margan Ave
New Lynn, Waitakere

This part of the church looks like the original church with the larger more modern one added later. Neo-Gothic tracery cement render building, built turn of the century, category III heritage building. This is the plaque on the wall:-

It may have originally been a Presbyterian Church as I found this brief biography on Rev F R Jeffreys in the Presbyterian archives:-
JEFFREYS, Rev Frank Rupert
b 5.7.1877
w (1) Sr. Evelyn McAdam b 21.12.1869 m 28.3.1911 d 2.3.1926
w (2) Janet Brash b 1886 m 22.11.1927 d (?)
Theological Hall 1908-10
Licensed by Presbytery of Dunedin Dec 1910
Ordained St Andrews SCP 4.4.1911 - resigned 31.3.1914
Superintendent Presbyterian Support Services Association Auckland 23.5.1914 - resigned 31.3.1928
Resigned from ministry 8.10.1929
He had a bookshop in Queen Street Auckland.
Died Jan 1939
Photo taken 15 Mar 2012

Samoan Congregational Church
22 Hutchinson Ave (cnr Islington Ave)
New Lynn, Waitakere
Category II Heritage building, built 1910

Recently renovated & with no plaque yet, I was able to find out about it from the Waitakere Council website. First photo is courtesy of Google & taken a few years ago in the middle of renovations. You can see the reflection of the windows in the church next door, St Thomas.
Photo taken 15 Mar 2012