Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author

06 February 2011

New Zealand Odyssey: St. Andrew's, Coromandel



A favourite when I first painted it in 1987, I drew it again later after which it appeared in my book 'Country Churches of New Zealand'. I delighted in the frontal aspect with its unusual integral triple porch-cum-steeple.

This is the old mother church of the Coromandel-Whitianga Presbyterian parish. It opened for divine service on 18 May 1873. It, like some other Coromandel buildings of the same vintage, is impressive on a small scale, I think the money came from a gold mining boom which, like all such bonanzas, came to an end.

© DON DONOVAN
donovan@ihug.co.nz






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