Stained glass windows and stairway, Knox Presbyterian Church, North Dunedin, New Zealand
Knox Presbyterian Church, 449 George St, North Dunedin
Architect: Robert Arthur Lawson
The eventual cost of Knox Church was £17,757: opening 5 November 1876.
Knox church, built in 1874, houses the city’s second Presbyterian congregation and is the city’s largest church of any denomination.
Gallery seating on two sides and end wall opposite altar.
Style is thirteenth century gothic with high arched windows and a spire 165 feet high.
The large stained glass window in the south wall was installed in 1896 in memory of Dr Stuart.
Materials used were Port Chalmers breccia for the basement, Leith valley andesite for the walls with Oamaru stone facings, and slate from the MacKerras Creek Slate quarry for the roof. Inside four cast iron pillars help support the gallery and the roof. The roof is constructed on the hammer-beam principle.
Ref: Heritage New Zealand
Stained glass windows and stairway, Knox Presbyterian Church, North Dunedin, New Zealand
Knox Presbyterian Church, 449 George St, North Dunedin
Architect: Robert Arthur Lawson
The eventual cost of Knox Church was £17,757: opening 5 November 1876.
Knox church, built in 1874, houses the city’s second Presbyterian congregation and is the city’s largest church of any denomination.
Gallery seating on two sides and end wall opposite altar.
Style is thirteenth century gothic with high arched windows and a spire 165 feet high.
The large stained glass window in the south wall was installed in 1896 in memory of Dr Stuart.
Materials used were Port Chalmers breccia for the basement, Leith valley andesite for the walls with Oamaru stone facings, and slate from the MacKerras Creek Slate quarry for the roof. Inside four cast iron pillars help support the gallery and the roof. The roof is constructed on the hammer-beam principle.
Ref: Heritage New Zealand