The Stone Store

The Stone Store at Kerikeri within the Bay of Islands is New Zealand’s oldest surviving stone constructing. Part of the second one Church Missionary Society station in New Zealand, the shop turned into designed by using John Hobbs to update an earlier wooden storehouse. The Stone Store changed into erected among 1832 and 1836 by a mason, William Parrott, a chippie, Ben Nesbitt, and a crew of Maori. Construction changed into of sandstone from Australia, neighborhood volcanic rocks, and burnt shell mortar. Iron ties and window bars had been cast with the aid of James Kemp, even though those sadly corroded the sandstone.

Initially the building had a timber belfry on one aspect. The Stone Store was meant to be the base of the Church Missionary Society’s trading put up, promoting produce from the farms on the te Waimate challenge to ships, and European items to Maori. Marsden planned to construct a flour mill on the adjacent Kerikeri River, but this become finally constructed at te Waimate rather. Stone turned into used to shield wheat from rats, for defence against Maori and to lessen the chance of fireplace.