Bishop's Court (Wellington, N.Z.)
The residence of the Anglican Bishop of Wellington. Associated with Old St Pauls Cathedral, Mulgrave Street, Wellington.
The first Bishop's Court house was built circa 1862 in a wooden Gothic revivial style on a site south of Old St Pauls donated by A G Tollemache in 1860 for a Bishop's residence. This house was demolished in 1879.
The second residence was built 1879-80 in a plain Italianate style, and still stands at 32 Mulgrave Street, on the south side of the cathedral. The architect was William Charles Chatfield, and the builders were Mitchell and Thompson. Four bishops resided there.
In 1940 the bishop's residence moved to a house on Eccleston Hill. The Mulgrave street house was let as a boarding house and apartments.
In 1963 it was sold to the Ministry of Works and Development who used it as an office building. Between 1969 and 1992 under the auspices of the States Services Commission, various branches of the Justice Department, including District Family Courts, occupied the building. During this time the interior was substantially altered.
In 1993 the building was sold back to the New Zealand Anglican Church Pension and Mission boards who continue to occupy the building.
Also known as Bishopscourt.
Image
Date:
[ca 1880s]
From:
Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district
By:
Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901
Reference:
PA7-11-35
Description:
Photograph of Mulgrave Street taken from opposite St Pauls Cathedral looking down towards the harbour. Bishop's Court is on the lefthand side of the street.
Duplicate of PA7-10-09
Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Image
From:
Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings
Reference:
1/4-074696-F
Description:
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Image
From:
Fearnley, Charles James, 1915-1988 :Photographs of New Zealand buildings
Reference:
1/4-074695-F
Description:
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Image
Date:
[ca 1880s]
From:
Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district
By:
Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901
Reference:
PA7-11-38
Description:
View looking down Mulgrave Street towards the harbour with St Paul's Cathedral and Bishop's Court on the left.
Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Image
Date:
1927 - 1928
By:
Coleridge, Thomas Travers Newton, active 1948-1974
Reference:
PAColl-4066
Description:
Arrangement: Negatives housed at 1/2-051252 to 051253
Quantity: 2 b&w copy negative(s).
Image
Date:
1989
From:
Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd :[Architectural plans. 1906-1995].
By:
Gooch, Mitchell and MacDiarmid Ltd
Reference:
Plans-2002-058-D-13-048/052
Description:
Includes floor plans, elevations and details of windows, porch brackets, eaves brackets and front entrance porch.
Quantity: 5 plan(s).
Physical Description: Diazo prints, 420 x 595 mm.
Online
Image
Date:
24 Feb 1960
From:
Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference:
EP/1960/0679-F
Description:
Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm
Online
Image
Date:
[between 1866 and 1880s]
From:
Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district
Reference:
1/1-039674-G
Description:
Photograph taken by William Henry Whitmore Davis.
Source of descriptive information - Negative register.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Glass negative, 1/1 plate
Online
Image
Date:
24 Feb 1960
From:
Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers
Reference:
EP/1960/0680-F
Description:
Photograph taken for the Evening Post newspaper of Wellington by an unidentified staff photographer.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Cellulosic film negative, 6.5 x 6.5 cm
Online
Image
Date:
[between 1866 and 1880s]
From:
Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district
Reference:
1/1-039675-G
Description:
Photograph taken by William Henry Whitmore Davis.
Source of descriptive information - Negative register.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Glass negative, 1/1 plate
Online
Image
Date:
1895
By:
Ross, Samuel G, active 1890s
Reference:
E-341-f
Description:
Scenes of St Paul's pro-cathedral, Bishop's Court, Government House, Queen's wharf and Lake Manapouri. Surrounded by native vegetation including nikau, toetoe, tree fern, flax, a cabbage tree, rata, clematis paniculata and ferns. There are also taiaha and tewhatewha (Maori weapons) used as backgrounds to two of the inserts.
Image of Lake Manapouri inaccurately shows a nikau and cabbage tree, neither of which occur naturally in southern Fiordland
Quantity: 1 watercolour(s).
Physical Description: Watercolour in bound format, dark green watered silk front endpaper, inlaid ornamental wood cover-folder in kauri, 450 x 360 mm
Online
Image
Date:
[ca 1880]
From:
Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district
Reference:
PA7-12-61
Description:
View of houses in Thorndon Quay with St Paul's behind and Bishop's Court to its left. In the immediate foreground is an area of reclaimed land and men standing on piles of gravel. Photograph taken by W H W Davis circa 1880.
Quantity: 1 b&w copy photographic print(s).
Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
Online
Image
Date:
[ca 1860]
From:
Creator unknown : Photographs of Wellington, from the Dorset album
Reference:
1/2-021166-F
Description:
Bishop's Court, Mulgrave Street, Wellington, photographed circa 1860. Shows a two storied, shingle roofed, wooden house in a gothic style. Photographer unidentified.
Quantity: 1 b&w copy negative(s).
Physical Description: Film copy negative
Online
Image
Date:
[Ca 1879]
From:
Davis, William Henry Whitmore, 1812-1901 :Photographs of Wellington and district
Reference:
1/2-230668-G
Description:
Mulgrave Street, Thorndon, Wellington, showing St Paul's Cathedral at left, and Bishop's Court under construction at right. A sailing ship is at anchor in the background. Photograph taken ca 1879 by William Henry Whitmore Davis.
Relationship complexity - Print made by the library from this negative is at PA7-10-06
Bishop's Court was completed in 1879.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
Physical Description: Wet collodion glass negative 5 x 7.75 inches
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