Holy Trinity, Lawrence

With the two earthquakes that hit the

Christchurch, New Zealand area in 2010/2011 

all public buildings throughout the country had to be re-assessed 

for future insurance purposes. 

This of course included all church buildings of all denominations.

Holy Trinity Church

Unfortunately a lot of the older churches in the country

didn't come up to standard and needed too much work for their parishes

 to bring them up to scratch.

from the road

This has resulted in a large number of small country parishes, 

and some inner city parishes as well, 

 losing the churches they have worshiped in for generations.

The bell tower

Holy Tinity Anglican church in Lawrence is one such church.

These are some snaps I took recently as we were passing through.

notice of final service

The final service in Holy Trinity took place on

January 11th, 2015 at 8:30am 

presided over by Bishop Kelvin.

He describes the 1000 year old font belonging to 

the church and gives a brief history of it here.

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