St Stephen's Chapel, Auckland
St Stephen's Chapel | |
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![]() The chapel in 2018 | |
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General information | |
Address | |
Coordinates | 36°51′1.28″S 174°47′22.37″E / 36.8503556°S 174.7895472°ECoordinates: 36°51′1.28″S 174°47′22.37″E / 36.8503556°S 174.7895472°E |
Completed | Early 1857 |
Design and construction | |
Architect | Frederick Thatcher |
Designated | 1 September 1983[1] |
Reference no. | 22 |
The St Stephen's Chapel and its churchyard were registered on 1 September 1983 by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (now Heritage New Zealand) as a Category I historic place with registration number 22.[1] Designed by Frederick Thatcher, the chapel replaced an earlier one that had been built in 1844 by Sampson Kempthorne, which had collapsed in July 1845. Thatcher's chapel was opened in early 1857.[2] The chapel is unique in that it was almost certainly built specifically as the place of signing of the constitution of the United Church of England and Ireland in New Zealand, and its floor plan is a Greek Cross as a symbol of the establishment of the church, whilst all other churches built for Bishop Selwyn use the traditional Latin cruciform plan.[1]
Notable burials[]
- Josiah Firth (1826–1897), businessman and politician[3]
- James Kemp (1797–1872), missionary[4]
- Reader Wood (1821–1895), politician and architect[5]
References[]
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- ^ a b c "St Stephen's Chapel". Register of Historic Places. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
- ^ Knight, Cyril Roy (1972). The Selwyn churches of Auckland. Wellington [N.Z.]: A.H. & A.W. Reed. p. 43. ISBN 0-589-00705-X. OCLC 596619.
- ^ "Mr J. C. Firth's funeral". Auckland Star. 13 December 1897. p. 4. Retrieved 4 April 2021.
- ^ "Untitled". The New Zealand Herald. Vol. IX, no. 2521. 23 February 1872. p. 2. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ^ "Death of Mr Reader Wood". Auckland Star. 21 August 1895. p. 2. Retrieved 24 May 2021.
- NZHPT Category I listings in the Auckland Region
- 1857 establishments in New Zealand
- Churches in Auckland
- Churches completed in 1857
- 1850s architecture in New Zealand
- Frederick Thatcher church buildings
- Oceanian church stubs
- New Zealand building and structure stubs