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DATE: (2001/02) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of the conservation plan and for design and construction. CLIENT: Waiapu Diocesan Trust BUILDING DESCRIPTION: The present The church was constructed of local timber with roofing of hand split totara shingles and measured 40 feet by 20 feet.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The condition of the building was causing concern to the parishioners. A condition and remedial measures report and maintenance plan was completed. The measures specified in the reports were completed so that the building was levelled, deteriorated fabric repaired, the shingled roof replaced and the stained glass repaired. New Zealand Profesional Conservator members Jack Fry and Julian Barkham completed the cleaning and recoating of shellac to the interior and fellow member, Graeme Stuart completed the stained glass repairs. Dunedin DATE: (2001/2) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of a conservation plan and design and documentation of conservation work. CLIENT: the Department for Courts BUILDING DESCRIPTION: The Dunedin Law Courts are significant in New Zealand in judicial, legal and architectural spheres. The building is nationally significant as the oldest High Court still operating in New Zealand. As a building where law has been taught and justice dispensed since 1902, it has been the setting for legal and judicial practice, sometimes of national precedent and certainly of national interest. The building has been associated with national figures that have contributed to the legal and judicial profession in New Zealand. Key figures who have been associated with the building include judges Robert Stout, Hanslon, Salmond, Saul, Solomon, Williams, Sim and Chapman as well as Ethel Benjamin who was the first woman lawyer in New Zealand. Her practise was based in the building. Significant legal cases heard in the building including that of Amy Bock, Dr Senga Whittingham and, more recently, David Bain. These and many other cases were of considerable interest to New Zealanders at the time and the Bain case continues to be so. It is a landmark heritage building in Dunedin in its exemplary use of the High Victorian Gothic style as well as its physical association with the Railway Station and Dunedin Police Station in the Castle Street Precinct. New Zealand's first Government Architect, John Campbell, has shown his very great skill and knowledge in designing a High Victorian Gothic building in an individual and exemplary form of the style. The building is held in very high public esteem particularly for its significant contribution to the lower Stuart Street heritage precinct streetscape. The building is one of fourteen category one New Zealand Historic Places Trust registered court buildings. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Preparation of a conservation plan to guide the conservation work. The conservation plan was taken as a basis for the preparation of contract documentation for the adaptation and repairs to the building in conjunction with Opus International Consultants. Julian Barkham, furniture conservator, inspected and prepared conservation specifications for the many significant items of original furniture. Lower Hutt DATE: (1999/02) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of an inventory of 1950s heritage structures in Lower Hutt. CLIENT: Hutt City Council. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: In the post-war period Lower Hutt was at the forefront of Modern Movement architecture in New Zealand. Housing and commercial developments in the Hutt Valley enabled some of New Zealands leading architects to fully explore town planning and functional design, key elements of the Modern Movement. New building construction immediately after the war began to make up for the previous limited construction activity and to house the returned servicemen. By the early 1950s New Zealands population had reached 2 million and housing construction in particular was a key policy of the governments of the time. Between 1940 and 1952 the population of Lower Hutt more than doubled to over 40,000. New housing was built in ever increasing numbers and large new industries were established such as the Dunlop factory. Needing appropriate planning and servicing the newly created suburbs in the Hutt Valley, radical urban design and control solutions were implemented. New roads, subdivisions, and whole suburban centres were planned. The city centre itself was replanned with a major new road cut through Riddiford Park and an old section of the city. Lower Hutt City Council became the largest non-government developer with the Maungaraki subdivision in 1953. The influence of the Modern Movement on development in Lower Hutt is exemplified in the new Civic Centre buildings, beginning with the first such styled church in New Zealand, St James. Andrews Avenue, Dudley Street and railway buildings from Petone to Taita were all built in the 1950s with many designed by Structon Group. Houses were being designed by influential architects of the time such as Ernst Plischke, Bill Toomath and Paul Pascoe. The initial idea behind the inventory was to choose 20 representative buildings of the 1950s. Considerably more than 20 buildings of the post-war period warranted recognition, hence a number of buildings have been grouped into precincts where their collective significance is even greater than their individual significance. Generally those most intact and examples of each building type have been chosen. The list is not exhaustive and, as any historian will attest, is not complete. Information was gathered from contemporary publications, advice kindly given by architects practising at the time and interested individuals, the Hutt City Council archives, and the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Unfortunately, the House and Building magazine did not usually give addresses, and sometimes even suburbs were missing from the article, making identification difficult. More buildings are likely to be discovered and these, too, should be assessed and added to the list. All the selected buildings attest to the rapid growth of Lower Hutt from a dormitory town to a city worthy of the returning soldiers and their sacrifices made during the war. Nairn Street, Wellington DATE: (2000/02) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of an maintenance plan to ensure the long term survival of the building. CLIENT: Wellington City Council. BUILDING DESCRIPTION: William Wallis built the cottage in 1858 for his family, having arrived in New Zealand with his wife in 1857. William Wallis was a timber merchant and carpenter who ran a successful business owning a sawmill in the Mangaroa Valley and a timber yard in Manners Street. As the family increased in numbers, he constructed the house next door, although members of his family lived in the original cottage. The house was based on a typical colonial cottage design, commonly seen in Bretts Colonist Guide. The house is built mainly of kauri and began as a simple four roomed box with steeply pitched roof. The verandah was added in 1870 and a wash house and kitchen at the rear of the house. A toilet was also constructed about the same time at the western boundary. The house is registered category 1 by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and is registered on the Wellington City Council register of heritage buildings. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Design, contract documentation and contract observation of repairs and maintenance. Bolton Street, Wellington DATE: (2001/02) POSITION HELD: Architect and conservator for the preparation of an conservation plan to determine heritage values and recommend means of retaining heritage values while conserving the building. CLIENT: Wellington City Council. BUILDING DESCRIPTION: Sextons Cottage is one of two houses constructed in 1857, the earliest housing still existing in the Wellington City boundaries and is one of the earliest buildings in the Wellington Region. The other house constructed in 1857 is Daisy Hill Farm. It is the oldest structure associated with the Bolton Street Cemetery, with the exception of the graves themselves. That association with the cemetery is all the more important because of the significance of the cemetery, a place of great historic significance itself where most of Wellingtons earliest settlers were buried. The house is registered category 1 by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and is registered on the Wellington City Council register of heritage buildings. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Design, contract documentation and contract observation of repairs and maintenance. |
building was constructed in 1859 and is the oldest church in the Waiapu Diocese and Hawkes Bay. The church was built by Samuel Williams, son of missionary Henry Williams. Samuel Williams became the rural dean of Hawkes Bay from 1854 to 1888 during which time he founded Te Aute College. He was archdeacon in 1888 and in 1889 was canon of St Johns Cathedral, Napier. 
The church was extended in 1881 and 1893, work in the latter date included the north and south transept and chancel. The church was repaired in 1959. The work involved repiling, repainting and reshingling of the roof. The church was most recently repainted in 1993.
The church has two significant stained glass windows. The east window was designed by John Bonnor while Karl Parsons designed the north window which was manufactured by James Powell and Sons (Whitefriars) Limited of England in 1926.