St. James Church

St. James Anglican Church, in Kerikeri, New Zealand, is a congregation of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa inside the Diocese of Auckland, presently operated as a project of St. Paul's Church, Whangaroa. It is mentioned for its historical church building, which become built in 1878. The first chapel become began in November 1823 and opened some 6 months later, but this become no longer built at the site of the present church. The 2d chapel, which changed into started a while early in 1829, become via subculture built at the web page chosen by the redoubtable Hongi Hika, then the paramount chief of the Ng?puhi. When the Mission Station changed into disbanded in 1848 this chapel fell into disrepair with the result that a brand new church changed into built on the identical website online in 1878.

An extract form the Church Gazette reads: "A superb neat little church became opened at Kerikeri on December fifth 1878. The offerings were conducted with the aid of Archdeacon Clarke and the Rev H P Tua." The complete fee of the constructing was hundred and thirty five pounds: a small debt of ten pounds turned into all that was owed. The building changed into manufactured from Kauri climate boards and a shingle roof, and foundations of puriri piles on stone blocks. William Cook and Son of Waimate North, who had built the church of St. John the Baptist in 1871, were additionally the developers of St James.