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A FOLLOW UP ON THE WOODBURY LIBRARY

GARDEN JOY IN TIMES OF ISOLATION

KEANES COTTAGE, PLEASANT POINT

A DIFFERENT KIND OF SNOW

ST JOHNS ANGLICAN CHURCH, NEW AND OLD

WHO DOESN’T LOVE A COUNTRY HALL? Woodbury

ST THOMAS’S ANGLICAN CHURCH, WOODBURY

THE WOODBURY CEMETERY

THE LEVELS HOMESTEAD

A PIONEERING WOMAN A TREE AND CASE OF CHAMPAGNE

Old School Buildings, Waihi School

BANK STREET METHODIST CHURCH

ST JAMES CHURCH HALL, MAUNGATI

THE RED CLAY ROOVES OF TIMARU

Thumbs Up for the Wuhoo Team in Timaru

Memorials In Favorite Places

Jacks Point Lighthouse - Tuhawaiki

Presbyterian Sunday School Hall, Temuka

St Joseph's Catholic Church, Temuka

The Temuka Post Office - Former

The Corner Shop

Arts and Crafts Gem in Timaru

Nelligan's Railway Hotel

St Johns Church, One Redundancy Leads To Another

Phar Lap Statue

A CENTURY OLD TIMARU TOWNHOUSE

Sharing Our City With The Wild Creatures

William Rolleston Memorial Lamp

The School Teachers House, Burkes Pass

The Old Sutherlands School

The Carnegie Fairlie Public Library Building

Pleasant Point Town Hall

Mount Cook Road Board Building

Burkes Pass Schoolhouse

Autumn in the Scenic Reserve

Peel back the Layers

BREMNERS COTTAGE, WAIMATE

AROWHENUA RESERVE GATEWAY

THE SCOTTISH HALL, TIMARU

Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain

Building Innovations

ST PATRICKS CHURCH, BURKES PASS

St Andrews Catholic Church

POET IN THE GARDENS

GENEROUS GIFT OF A KELTIC KNOT ON CAROLINE BAY.

SHEPHERDS CORNER BUILDING

PEACE AVENUE AND AN EASTER OUTING

St Mary’s Church, Esk Valley

The Temuka Court House

Timaru District Council

The Masonic Hotel, St Andrews

Patersons Cottage

Problematic Royal Arcade

The Kate Sheppard Memorial Garden

Syncline by Russell Beck

Doug Neil’s Great Rock of the Heartland

Thumps up to the Timaru Court House

Local Goth, St Marys Parish Hall

Warehouse District - Dunedin

Grosvenor Hotel

IN PRAISE OF BLOSSOM AND TREES

HENRY CAIN SCULPTURE

THE CRAIGHEAD CHAPEL

THE ATLAS CHAMBERS

Funding for Heritage

Attracting tourists needs imagination, not money

Timaru Boys High School Memorial Library

The Oxford Building

AGM - 30th June

Carnegie's Legacy

Maurice Duval Architect

Seafarers Building

Herbert Hall's Chateau Tongariro

Perfection in Miniature

Gladstone Board of Works

Fairview Road Bluestone Bridge

Art Deco movement

The CFCA Building

A Sensitively designed building

Easter Weekend Walks

Sacred Heart Basilica

Canary Island Date Palms

Timaru's Chief Post Office

Blackett's Lighthouse

A Majestic Beauty in the middle of town

An Elegant and Strong Example

A Great little Resource

Humphrey Hall House - Timaru

The Custom House

Timaru Telephone Exchange

Tranquility in Timaru

Adaption in Variety Lane

The Rose Window, St Mary’s church

The Aigantighe Art Gallery

ANGELS AND TRUMPETS ON HIGH

When I first came to Timaru I recall being fascinated by the charming little brick building along Evans St, in Waimataitai, and wondering about its origins.
All Saints began its existence when it was built as a Primitive Methodist church on the Evans Street site in Waimataitai. The Herald reported at the time that the first services were held in 1906 even though the little church wasn’t finished until the following year, 1907.
It was to house a congregation of around 100 people and cost around 400 Pounds to complete. Constructed of red brick, on a foundation of concrete running from the road level in the front to a depth of about 6 feet at the back, in appearance it was and still is a very compact and neat building.
The entrance is by a square porch, facing the Main North road, still visible today, above the porch is a small belfry, no longer there.
The Herald then also reported that “the interior was covered with a ‘dead rose tint’ and the wainscoting, or wooden lining, ran to a height of 4 feet around the walls. The church is lit by Gothic headed windows, filled with tinted glass, and these give the interior a nice bright appearance. For evening services two large kerosene lamps are suspended from the ceiling”.
In 1879 Mrs Woollcombe started a Sunday school for 11 children in her dining room at Ashbury (the site at Ashbury Park is still home to the magnificent trees planted on this estate). A couple of relocations saw the Sunday school moved first to the Waimataitai State School and then in 1907 to a small wooden church on the Woollcombe property, the first Anglican church to the north of the city. Every other Sunday church services were held here, and the congregation grew until a new home was needed. In 1924 the little brick Methodist chapel in Evans Street was bought for the purpose at a cost of 455 pounds, and a new Sunday School was added on behind.
Well supported over the years by its congregation, the church continued to operate till 1978 when All Saints and St Philip’s made the decision to combine. The Evans Street Chapel was deconsecrated and sold with proceeds set aside for the construction a new chapel at St Philips to rehouse precious items from All Saints like the St Mary’s font and the carvings by Frederick Gurnsey as well as other treasures.
The little building I used to wonder about was original brick chapel building. It still stands, having been redesigned as a private home.
The original All Saints, the small wooden church on the Woollcombe property, Ashbury, was also altered to become a family home.

Century Old Timaru Townhouse