Wooden church (at one time clad in corrugated iron), designed by Christchurch architect, B W Mountfort. Built 1888, demolished 1954. It stood on the corner of The Terrace and Bowen Streets, which in 2000 is the site of the Reserve Bank.
Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Account book
Date: 1930-1943
From: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records
By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MSY-0175
Description: First record of the First Independent Church, Wellington, later known as the Terrace Congregational Church. St. Anselm's Union Church, Karori is the successor church. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Creator unknown: Street scenes of Wellington
Date: [ca 1920s-1930s]
Reference: PAColl-6741
Description: Ten views of Wellington: two of a man sitting on a bench next to a cabbage tree, probably in Kelburn, looking out over the harbour; a tram car for Island Bay approaching the corner of Manners Street and Cuba Street; lorries and a tram car on Cuba Street; looking along Museum Street towards The Terrace with the parliament on the left and the Terrace Congregational Church on the corner of Bowen Street; a view over Wellington and the harbour towards Mount Victoria probably from Tinakori Hill; a man selling fruit from a cart on a street corner with pedestrians crossing the street; a view looking across the harbour towards Mount Victoria from a building on the water front; the Empire Motors Garage Ltd; and a view along Manners Street towards Mount Victoria including a tram for Lambton Station. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/4-029801 to 029809 and 029830 Quantity: 10 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negatives
Minutes of Women's Guild meetings
Date: 1927-1934
From: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records
By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MSX-0051
Description: First record of the First Independent Church, Wellington, later known as the Terrace Congregational Church. St. Anselm's Union Church, Karori is the successor church. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Terrace Congregational Church :Photographs of the Terrace Congregational Church
Date: ca 1954
Reference: PAColl-0492
Description: Six photographs of the exterior of The Terrace Congregational Church on the corner of The Terrace and Bowen Street with cars parked on the streets and part of the Bowen Hospital visible opposite it in one. Two photographs of the interior of the church, one looking towards the organ and the other showing the stained glass windows. Photographer unidentified. Arrangement: Negatives at 1/2-002552 and 002554 (copy negatives of unlocated original prints) Quantity: 6 b&w original photographic print(s). 2 b&w original negative(s).
Svendsen, Trevor R, d 1993 :[Measured drawing of The Terrace Congregational Church Well...
Date: 1887 - 1951
By: Svendsen, Trevor Ronald, 1926-1993; Mountfort, Benjamin Woolfield, 1825-1898; Hay, Christopher John, 1930-1997
Reference: Plans-2003-054-001/005
Description: Includes an ink drawing of the Terrace Congregational Church Wellington "as built", drawn in 1951 by Trevor Svendsen for his second professional examination NZIA Testimony of Study, 1951. Includes three photostats of this drawing. Drawing shows ground floor plan, north and east elevations, details of window heads, window sills, mullion window stile, barge and eaves of the large gable. Also includes blueprint of Mountfort's 1887 floor plan. Quantity: 5 plan(s). Physical Description: Ink drawing, diazo print and photostats, sizes varying. Provenance: Mr Hay was an architecture student at the same time as Mr Svendsen. Transfers: Measured drawings done at the same time by the donor Mr Christopher Hay, are at Plans-80-0880..
Minutes of Deacons meetings
Date: 1927-1949
From: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records
By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MSY-0167
Description: First record of the First Independent Church, Wellington, later known as the Terrace Congregational Church. St. Anselm's Union Church, Karori is the successor church. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Church Meeting Minute Book
Date: 1942-1951
From: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records
By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MSY-0164
Description: First record of the First Independent Church, Wellington, later known as the Terrace Congregational Church. St. Anselm's Union Church, Karori is the successor church. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Barton, Cranleigh Harper 1890-1975 :Congregational Church Wellington Terrace [ca 1930]
Date: 1925 - 1935
By: Barton, Cranleigh Harper, 1890-1975
Reference: A-227-013
Description: View from The Terrace, looking towards a large wooden church with a tower and clerestory windows Inscriptions: Signed: Cranleigh Barton This church, since demolished, stood on the present site of the New Reserve Bank Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour 287 x 193 mm Provenance: Presented by Cranleigh Barton Esq, October 1968
Congregational Church on The Terrace - Early Wellington Churches
Date: 1974-76
From: Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings
Reference: 1/4-075044-F
Description: Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Church Meeting Minute Book
Date: 1898-1923
From: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records
By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MSY-0161
Description: First record of the First Independent Church, Wellington, later known as the Terrace Congregational Church. St. Anselm's Union Church, Karori is the successor church. Quantity: 1 volume(s). Physical Description: Mss, printed matter Grey phase box
[Hay, Christopher John] 1930-1997 :[Field notes for measured drawings for B. W. Mountfo...
Date: 1951
By: Hay, Christopher John, 1930-1997
Reference: A-166-036/064
Description: Show Terrace Congregational Church, Wellington cf Trevor Svensden's similar drawings (A-166-013/035) and the final measured drawing (Plans-80-880.) For 2nd year study for N.Z. Institute of Architects, University of New Zealand Quantity: 28 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and Pencil on 22 sheets 150 x 100 mm to 300 x 380 mm
Minutes of Women's Guild meetings
Date: 1932-1948
From: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records
By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MSX-0052
Description: First record of the First Independent Church, Wellington, later known as the Terrace Congregational Church. St. Anselm's Union Church, Karori is the successor church. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Programmes of special church services in Auckland, etc
Date: 1923-1931
From: Comrie, William James (Very Rev), 1860-1945 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-0011-31
Description: Includes the following: Programme - Turakina Maori Girls' School (laying of the foundation stone of the new college at Marton, 1927) Papakura Presbyterian Church accounts, 1940 Knox College (Dunedin) programmes to commemorative services, 1923, 1926 Presbyterian Church of New Zealand order of service for Young People's Day, Oct 1924, 1925, 1928 and 1939 Also material re Mt Eden Presbyterian Church, St Andrew's Presbyterian Church (Auckland), Senior Boys' Home (Morton Street, Berhamphore, Wellington), The Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington) - Funeral service of Rev J Reed Glasson, St John's Presbyterian Church (Papatoetoe), Papakura Presbyterian Sunday School, 1936, 1939-40, Bombay Presbyterian Church, 1941. Syllabus of studies for Junior Bible Classes, 1929-1931 Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Church Services Register
Date: 1942-1954
From: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records
By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MSY-0171
Description: First record of the First Independent Church, Wellington, later known as the Terrace Congregational Church. St. Anselm's Union Church, Karori is the successor church. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Wellington City looking south west from the wooden Government Building
Date: 1928
From: Evening post (Newspaper. 1865-2002) :Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post newspaper
Reference: EP-1714-1/2-G
Description: View of Wellington City looking south west from the wooden Government Building. There are clear views of Bowen Street and Lambton Quay with trams. On the bottom right of the image can be seen the temporary Cenotaph wich was in use until ANZAC Day 1931 by which time it had been replaced by the present Cenotaph. Photographed by an unknown photographer for the Evening Post Newspaper in 1928. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative
Church Meeting Minute Book
Date: 1881-1898
From: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records
By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MSY-0160
Description: First record of the First Independent Church, Wellington, later known as the Terrace Congregational Church. St. Anselm's Union Church, Karori is the successor church. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Blundell album
Date: [Circa 1880s]
From: Blundell, John Barraud, 1904-1975 : Photograph albums
By: Wrigglesworth and Binns (Firm)
Reference: PA1-o-043
Description: Album chiefly containing views of the North Island of New Zealand, many taken by professional photographers Wrigglesworth and Binns. Images include one of a cricket match between an English team and the Wellington team, March 23-24 1888, at the Basin Reserve, showing spectators in the foreground, the players on the field, and buildings on the hill behind. There are a number of views of the Whanganui River, including a cave, a canoe with 5 men poling through rapids, a view of the river from Hiruharama, and a waterfall. At the end of the album there are images of Port Said, Malabar, and two newspaper photographs, one of Mrs J Milbourne (nee Maud Beatty, a member of the Pollard Opera Company), and William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, governor of New South Wales 1899-1900. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Black cover 245 x 315 mm
Church Meeting Minute Book
Date: 1859-1881
From: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records
By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MSY-0159
Description: First record of the First Independent Church, Wellington, later known as the Terrace Congregational Church. St. Anselm's Union Church, Karori is the successor church. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Church Meeting Minute Book
Date: 1927-1942
From: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records
By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MSY-0163
Description: First record of the First Independent Church, Wellington, later known as the Terrace Congregational Church. St. Anselm's Union Church, Karori is the successor church. Quantity: 1 volume(s).
Account book
Date: 1878-1888
From: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.) : Records
By: Terrace Congregational Church (Wellington, N.Z.)
Reference: MSY-0173
Description: First record of the First Independent Church, Wellington, later known as the Terrace Congregational Church. St. Anselm's Union Church, Karori is the successor church. Quantity: 1 volume(s).