Selwyn_Times: October 26, 2022

Selwyn Times Wednesday October 26 2022
10
NEWS
The 150th anniversary of
the consecration of the
All Saints’ Church will be
celebrated on November
5 and 6. Prebbleton
Heritage secretary Sandra
Serra reports
NEXT MONTH marks the
150th anniversary of the
consecration of the first All
Saints’ Church in Prebbleton.
To help celebrate the milestone
Prebbleton Heritage is providing
a display at the church.
The church has a long history
on the site at the corner of
Springs and Blakes Rds beginning
with the donation, by John
N Tosswill, of the land itself
for the purposes of building a
church and providing a school to
support a township.
The land provided the place
where a chapel/school was built
– a school during the week and a
chapel on Sundays.
The building quickly became
inadequate, and fundraising began
to build the first All Saints’
Church on the site with the
foundation stone being laid in
July 1871 with much pomp and
ceremony.
Building progressed quickly
and a year later services were being
held there. Although the interior
was not entirely finished a
service to consecrate the church
was held on All Saints’ Day,
November 1, 1872, and it is this
occasion which we are marking
150 years later.
The church was later extended
in 1877 to accommodate the
growing congregation. A peal
of, eventually, five bells was installed,
along with a pipe organ.
All was well until the night of
March 21, 1906, when a fire destroyed
the whole of the church
and everything within it.
It included the parish registers,
destroying vital records of the
baptisms, marriages and burials
which had taken place at the
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Series of events planned to mark
150th anniversary of All Saints’ Church
• From page 1
Andee, who plays for Leeston
Southbridge, had won the
opportunity to take part in the
ANZ Coin Toss, where she joined
the captains Tim Southee and
Shakib Al Hasan for the prematch
toss.
She met many of the players
and got all the Black Caps to sign
her new Coin Toss Kid shirt and
ball.
A highlight was meeting her
HISTORY: The second All Saints Church as it is today.
PHOTO: SHELLEY BAKKER
favourite Black Cap Glenn Phillips,
who asked her all about
school and her own cricket
matches.
“It was awesome. I like his
special celebrations when he gets
100 runs or a really good catch.
He gets really excited,” Andee
said.
These special celebrations are
something Andee has adopted for
her own matches and she’s had
plenty to celebrate. Last season,
chapel/school and church prior
to 1906.
Fundraising began immediately,
and together with insurance
money, enabled the rebuild of
the church to commence and
15 months later, the second All
Saints’ Church was opened for
worship on July 11, 1907. The
rebuild included the replacement
of the organ, one which
is recognised by The NZ Organ
Preservation Trust as being of
significance, and in 1913 a new
peal of five bells was installed.
These were said to be the finest
in Canterbury and are still being
rung today.
There is much to tell of the
history of this church, the first
church being designed by Benjamin
Mountfort and the second
by his son Cyril, and our display
gives a more detailed account of
this history.
The public are invited to come
and see for themselves, both the
church interior and the display
on Saturday, November 5, 10am-
3.30pm and on Sunday, November
6, from 1.30-3.30pm.
The churchyard has many
stories of those buried there over
the last 150+ years and there will
be a cemetery tour available to
join at 10.30am and 1.30pm on
Saturday and 1.30pm on Sunday.
The tour will begin at the earliest
headstone in the cemetery,
that of Lucy Kimber who died
in 1869 aged just 23. We then
move on to hear about William
Andee took a hat-trick when
she bowled out three boys in a
row.
“I’ve never bowled out
three boys before so I was
really proud. I did some cartwheels.”
While she has a knack for
bowling, batting is her favourite
role.
“I like batting because I can
smack the ball really hard.”
She had enjoyed watching Phillips
make some big hits during
the game, and was raring to go
for her own season.
Andee said she wanted to encourage
other girls to give cricket
a go.
“I just like playing it because
it’s lots of fun.”
•Applications for ANZ
Coin Toss experience
are still open, via
anzcricketworld.co.nz
The
combined
chapel and
school at it
was from
1865 to
1872.
Hazlehurst, his swimming pool,
roller skating rink and other of
his entrepreneurial enterprises.
The “Prebbleton Sparrow
Club” will feature along with
the, sometimes sad, stories about
more of the early residents of the
area as well as hearing the amusing
story about Isaac Harding’s
missing pig.
The tour finishes at the grave
of James Prebble who, along with
his three sons Richard, William
and Edward, settled in the area
and gave the town its name.
The local community market
will also be on site (weather
permitting) from noon to 4pm
on Sunday.
• For any inquiries
regarding this event or
about Prebbleton’s history
in generaEvel, Prebbleton
Heritage can be made
at prebbletonheritage@
gmail.com
Young bowler celebrated hat-trick with cartwheels
HIGHLIGHT: Glenn Phillips
with the ANZ Coin Toss
winner Andee Chynoweth.
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