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Te Henui Vicarage

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of the 1860s when he had to evacuate the building. Although the building survived these conflicts at a time when many others were destroyed in the fighting, Govett did not return to it. Some parts of the original sandstone sections of Te Henui disappeared after 1880 and wooden lean-tos were added to
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The beginnings of Christianity in the area came as a result of the need to provide familiar spiritual and cultural institutions to the settlers, as well as missionary services to the Maori people. As the majority of colonists were members of the
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of Selwyn's undivided diocese of New Zealand (1841–1856). It is one of the very few examples of a building that features the symbol of the three stars in the designs for the crests of each of the present
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for the parish of New Plymouth. Bishop Selwyn allocated to reverend Bolland an existing sandstone house, the former Captain J.G. Cooke's house, at Te Henui, as a residence for him and his family.
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Associated with the earliest period of European settlement in New Plymouth, the vicarage is one of the relatively few buildings in New Plymouth that was not demolished during the
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Te Henui Vicarage, as known today, is in fact an addition to the original house, between the two wings of the old building, dating from 1845. It was designed by the architect
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on 6 February 1840 and the declaration of sovereignty on 21 May 1840, the number of immigrants to New Zealand, particularly from the United Kingdom, began to increase.
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William Bolland died of fever at the end of May 1847 and was succeeded by Henry Govett as vicar of St Mary's for the next fifty years, who would become the first
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from New Plymouth. The significant aesthetic value of the building comes from its simplicity. It has steeply pitched gables and it is constructed from local
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was nominated as Bishop of New Zealand. He arrived in New Zealand in 1842 and began his job by designating the reverend William Bolland as
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and, since his arrival in New Plymouth in 1843, had designed a number of churches for Bishop George Selwyn. He was the architect for
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was able to seek the appointment of a Bishop for New Zealand, tasked with setting up the Anglican constitution in the new
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in the late 1960s and early 1970s. That restoration involved removing all additions to the original stone structure.
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of New Zealand. Initially, the diocese included the whole of New Zealand as well as islands from
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Beneath the apex of the gable of the front elevation, there is a carving of the
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Since 1973, the building is used as a showroom by the New Plymouth Potters.
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The symbol of the undivided diocese of New Zealand (1841-1856)
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as a Category 1 Historic Place, situated in the suburb of
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Te Henui Vicarage fits in the so-called "Antipodean
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Gothic Revival
New Plymouth
Coordinates
39°03′13″S 174°05′29″E / 39.053557°S 174.091375°E / -39.053557; 174.091375
New Plymouth District Council
Stone
Andesite
Frederick Thatcher
Heritage New Zealand – Category 1
New Plymouth
heritage buildings
Heritage New Zealand
Strandon
Taranaki Wars
Maori
Treaty of Waitangi
Frederic Alonzo Carrington
Church of England
Church Mission Society
Diocese
Polynesia
Te Henui Vicarage (ca 1870)
George Augustus Selwyn
Deacon
Frederick Thatcher
Royal Institute of British Architects
St Mary's Church
Colonial Hospital (now "The Gables")
Archdeacon

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