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Church Stone Wall (46)
Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3164 W: 213 N: 6672] (26358)
Stone Wall of the Church

This is the Knox Presbyterian Church in Cheviot, in the South Island of NZ.

As we drove north to Kaikoura from Christchurch we had to stop at Cheviot when we saw this unusual church. Cheviot is a small rural town in the Hurunui District of north Canterbury, 115 km north-east of Christchurch and 79 km south of Kaikoura on State Highway 1. Its 2006 population was 390.

The original Cheviot Presbyterian Church, was built in 1896 and later converted into a Sunday School Hall around 1953. Unfortunately it was burnt down at around 3am on the 4th May1954, being a total loss with an insurance claim amounting to £500 pounds.

A new Parish centre arose from the ashes in 1966. The stones were all donated from a local farm, and it gives you an idea of what a lot of the fields are like down that area. These will all be from the massive earth movements in the area many thousands of years ago.

What I like about this photo is the brilliant glass windows, and how the sun is shining on the other side of the building and the sunlight is coming through the building and brightening the windows on this side.

I think these windows must be in the crèche area in the church – note the little toy teddy bear and other colourful playthings on the window ledge.

And the Hydrangea flowers growing below the window are an added attraction – well I think so – what do you think?

This is a photo of the Knox Presbyterian Church in Cheviot
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Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3164 W: 213 N: 6672] (26358)
The Church in Cheviot
Edited by:Janice Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 3164 W: 213 N: 6672] (26358)
This is the Knox Presbyterian Church in Cheviot, rebuilt in 1966.

The foundation stone of the new Knox Church came from the foundations of the Cheviot "Mansion House" and the bell, which hangs in the new Church tower and had formerly hung in the old Church, was once the Cheviot Hills Station bell, one of Canterbury’s largest 19th-century properties.