Ormond Chapel Napier 2015

Description

Ormond Chapel, Chaucer Road, Hospital Hill, Napier, 22 February 2015

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Text on sign-
“Anglican Parish of St John the Evangelist
ORMOND CHAPEL
(Built 1868. Historic Places Trust Category I)
Service times:
Second and fourth Sundays
11.00 am Holy Communion

All welcome
Parish Office: Browning Street Ph. 835 8824
Dean: Helen Jacobi Ph. 835 8824

Additional information-
http://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/182 Historic Place Category 1 List Number 182

Historical Significance or Value
Ormond Chapel is the result of the unusual adaptation of a secular building to an ecclesiastical use. It remains one of New Zealand’s earliest extant educational buildings and is today a memorial to the grandson of one of the school’s original benefactors.

This chapel is a small-scale but highly distinctive building. Its simple form is embellished by Gothic decoration, particularly in the unusual street elevation, which bellies [belies] the relative plainness of the rear of the building. Although somewhat modified the interior complements the exterior admirably. Ormond Chapel is a fine example in the New Zealand tradition of the adaptation of a simple colonial structure to a specific alternative use.