St Peter’s Anglican Cathedral, Hamilton
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What you should know about St Peter’s Anglican Cathedral, Hamilton
Cathedral Office 10am 2pm Monday Friday Bookshop 10am 2pm 11am 12pm Monday Friday Sunday. 30am during term time St Peters Cathedral centre 51 Victoria Street, Hamilton. nz information youth children or a printed programme is available from the Cathedral office . Absolute chaos is a chance for children and teens to catch up with their peers and get stuck into some great activities! In the last year Absolute Chaos Youth Club have done the following activities . The hill on which the Cathedral Church stands is known as Cathedral Hill Pukerangiora. The first Hamilton Anglican church was nearly completed in 1867 when it was burnt down.
The new church however was built with Kahikatea and was badly affected by borer and a fund was set up to enable a new church to be built. St Peter’s Cathedral is the mother church for the Anglican Diocese of Waikato and shares this role with St Mary’s Cathedral in new Plymouth. The Cathedral is also a vibrant parish in its own right with the Dean of the Cathedral as its Vicar. There are two books which detail the history of the Cathedral and the hill it stands on. Three score years fifteen was compiled by Gabrielle Paul Day for our 75th anniversary.
In 1990 for the 75th Anniversary of the Cathedral, Paul Gabrielle Day wrote a book of our history. In fact, the North Island volume of the Historic Places Trust’s Historic Buildings of New Zealand lists not a single Hamilton building. Conceived in armed conflict, casually and negligently nurtured by business and government bodies in faraway Auckland, Hamilton was, for the first 20 years, a quagmire of deprivation, poverty and natural disaster. Within a decade, destiny had pushed the church into a more important role in 1926 it received the cathedra of the first Bishop of Waikato, Cecil Arthur Cherrington.
Since then, through many vicissitudes, St Peter’s has been completed and adorned. The second book, written in 2002 by Bishop David Moxon is a 40 page book with colour illustrations designed as a Visitor’s Guide starting with an introduction to the Anglican Communion and then walks through and around the precincts of this Cathedral and the hill on which it stands
The new church however was built with Kahikatea and was badly affected by borer and a fund was set up to enable a new church to be built. St Peter’s Cathedral is the mother church for the Anglican Diocese of Waikato and shares this role with St Mary’s Cathedral in new Plymouth. The Cathedral is also a vibrant parish in its own right with the Dean of the Cathedral as its Vicar. There are two books which detail the history of the Cathedral and the hill it stands on. Three score years fifteen was compiled by Gabrielle Paul Day for our 75th anniversary.
In 1990 for the 75th Anniversary of the Cathedral, Paul Gabrielle Day wrote a book of our history. In fact, the North Island volume of the Historic Places Trust’s Historic Buildings of New Zealand lists not a single Hamilton building. Conceived in armed conflict, casually and negligently nurtured by business and government bodies in faraway Auckland, Hamilton was, for the first 20 years, a quagmire of deprivation, poverty and natural disaster. Within a decade, destiny had pushed the church into a more important role in 1926 it received the cathedra of the first Bishop of Waikato, Cecil Arthur Cherrington.
Since then, through many vicissitudes, St Peter’s has been completed and adorned. The second book, written in 2002 by Bishop David Moxon is a 40 page book with colour illustrations designed as a Visitor’s Guide starting with an introduction to the Anglican Communion and then walks through and around the precincts of this Cathedral and the hill on which it stands
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