St Mary's Church

42 Raumati Street and Terrace Street, Matawai, GISBORNE

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This historic place was registered under the Historic Places Act 1993. The following text is from the original Proposal for Classification report considered by the NZHPT Board at the time of registration. St Mary's Church, Matawai is a small scale Gothic revival timber church built in 1916 and constructed in November 1917, to serve the Matawai parochial district. The township of Matawai was growing rapidly at that time due to the proposed construction of a railway line to link Gisborne through to the Bay of Plenty. The architect was Frederick de Jersey Clere, St Mary's is an example of a typical Clere country church having many standard features of his work, including vertical board and batten cladding and lancet windows with shallow trefoil head in rectangular frames. It is the twin church of St Paul's Motu, also designed by Clere and almost identical in detailing with the exception of the gable ends.

St Mary's Church, Matawai | 09/09/2009 | Heritage New Zealand
St Mary's Church, Matawai. Image included in Field Record Form Collection | James Blackburn | 27/11/1992 | Heritage New Zealand

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Status

Listed

List Entry Status

Historic Place Category 2

Access

Private/No Public Access

List Number

7184

Date Entered

6th June 1994

Date of Effect

6th June 1994

City/District Council

Gisborne District

Region

Gisborne Region

Legal description

Lot 4 Blk V DP 1879 Matawai Township (RT GS3A/835), Gisborne Land District

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