St Stephen's Chapel, Auckland

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St Stephen's Chapel
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St Stephen's Chapel in 2018
St Stephen's Chapel, Auckland
36°51′1.28″S174°47′22.37″E / 36.8503556°S 174.7895472°E / -36.8503556; 174.7895472
Address12 Judge Street, Parnell, Auckland
CountryNew Zealand
Denomination Anglican
Website www.holy-trinity.org.nz/ststephenschapel
History
Status Chapel and churchyard
Dedication Saint Stephen
Events1857 signing of the Constitution of the United Church of England and Ireland in New Zealand
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Architect(s) Frederick Thatcher
Architectural type Church
Completed1857
Administration
Province Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia
Diocese Auckland
Parish Cathedral of the Holy Trinity
Official nameSt Stephen's Chapel (Anglican) and Churchyard [1]
Designated1 September 1983
Reference no.22

The St Stephen's Chapel is an heritage-listed Anglican chapel and associated churchyard located in Judges Bay, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand.

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History

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 on 13 June 1857, 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]

The chapel fell into disrepair, and was restored in the late 1920s. [3]

The chapel and its churchyard were registered on 1 September 1983 by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust as a Category I historic place with registration number 22. [1]

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