He attended a funeral a week before it was permanently closed due to earthquake damage in 2011. His daughter was also married at the church. Parishioners have been worshipping in the congregation’s Kerry Hall with plans for a new church to be built on the site and part of the tennis court next to it.
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Workers prepare the ground for more heavy machinery on Wednesday for the demolition of St Mary s Church in Pleasant Point. The Historic Place Category 2 heritage building, opened in 1889 and the original church building cost £750. The tower, clock and church bells were added later.
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Pleasant Point’s St Mary s Church is to be demolished by the end of the year. It is hoped the new church will be built on the neighbouring tennis courts.
Just when the earthquake damaged St Mary’s Church, in Pleasant Point, will be demolished is up in the air as the Catholic Diocese takes control, but it is expected to be gone by the end of 2021. Catholic Diocese of Christchurch property and facilities co-ordinator Mary Curtis said no decision had been made on when the church would be bowled but ‘’it would definitely be by the end of the year’’.
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A small event was held on Sunday to officially reopen St Peter’s Anglican Church at Church Corner in Christchurch. Architect Hugh Tennent helped refurbish the damaged church, and it had now been strengthened to 100 per cent of the building code and expanded to include a hospitality space and toilets. “We ve been working for 10 years to achieve this goal and [it] is really exciting for us to be able to celebrate and to open the church,” Mountfort said. “The new church is a really good combination of old and new. It has modern amenities like a kitchen and a hospitality area, but it has kept the majesty of the old building.”
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