Cute churches & scenic cemeteries, NZ

other NZ

19 Jun

Written By Mark Eaglesfield

While I mostly travel through Aotearoa New Zealand for hiking opportunities, I like to break up long drives with visits to churches, cemeteries, and war memorials (even tiny settlements have them).

North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui)

Gladstone Church, Gladstone, Wairarapa

Mormon temple, Hamilton, Waikato

St. Faith's Anglican Church, Ōhinemutu, Rotorua, Bay of Plenty

Members of the Ngāti Whakaue iwi worship here.

Here is a video tour of St. Faith’s.

A duck reading in Napier Cemetery, Napier, Hawke's Bay.

Pigeon Park pigeon & Symonds St Cemetery, Auckland

Moon and war memorial, Victoria St, Hamilton

Archer St cemetery, Masterton, Wairarapa

Poor Henry. Archer St cemetery.

Ōkato Cemetery. Mt Taranaki right, Pouakai Range center-right.

South Island (Te Waipounamu)

Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo, Mackenzie Basin, Canterbury

St Paul's Church, Arrowtown, Otago

St Andrew's Church, Queenstown, Otago

Ōtākou marae, Ōtākou village, Otago Peninsula

Visitors need advance permission from Te Rūnanga ō Ōtakou to enter.

Methodist church. My favorite South Island building.

St Martin's, Duntroon, Waitaki Valley, S. Canterbury.

Will faith falter when the church is shaken?

Old Ngahere Church, Grey District, W. Coast.

See https://maps.app.goo.gl/S9A2zVxb4uRpY6xQ8 for more.

Drybread Cemetery, near Omakau, Manuherikia Valley, Central Otago

Queenstown Cemetery, Queenstown, Otago

Wānaka Cemetery, Wānaka, Otago

Wānaka Cemetery

Hāwea Cemetery, Lake Hāwea, Otago

Waikawa Cemetery, the Catlins, Otago

Hyde Cemetery, Hyde, Otago. Rock and Pillar Range.

Mararewa Cemetery near Tapawera, Tasman.

Wakapuaka Cemetery, Nelson.

Wakapuaka.

Memorial Chapel to Father Garin, Wakapuaka.

Havelock Cemetery, Marlborough Sounds.

Havelock Cemetery & Mt Takorika.

Omaka Cemetery & Wither Hills, Blenheim.

Makarora Cemetery & Mt White, Otago Lakes.

Ōmarama Cemetery, Mackenzie Basin.

Ōmarama Cemetery.

Clyde Cemetery, Central Otago.

Omakau Cemetery, Ida Valley, C. Otago.

Omakau.

Omakau.

Hamilton's Cemetery, Orangapai, C. Otago.

Arawhata Pioneer Cemetery, Jackson Bay, West Coast.

Arawhata Pioneer Cemetery.

Tarras Cemetery, Central Otago.

Inangahua Cemetery, Buller District, inland W. Coast.

Timaru Cemetery.

Stillwater Cemetery, near Greymouth.

Stillwater.

Revisiting Stillwater at night.

Rare decent night photo from my smartphone.

If you visit rural cemeteries, make sure to shut the gates. Otherwise sheep may get in. Drybread Cemetery had plenty of evidence of sheep infiltration. (It is entirely surrounded by pasture.)

Other webpages

https://nzjane.com/maori-inspired-church-architecture/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1568696 (The Maori Response to Gothic Architecture)
https://jontynz.com/2018/06/18/new-zealand-cemeteries/
https://nzjane.com/where-the-bodies-are-buried/

Further reading: Sundt, Richard Alfred. Whare Karakia: Māori Church Building, Decoration & Ritual in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1834-1863.

Mark Eaglesfield

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