Anglican church in Auckland, established by Bishop Selwyn. Built of stone in 1843, it collapsed in 1859. Abandoned in 1864, the ruins were demolished in 1954 and it was re-built. Located on the corner of Kohimarama and St Helier's Bay Roads.
St. Thomas' Church (Kohimarama, Auckland, N.Z.)
St. Thomas's Church (Mission Bay, Auckland, N.Z.)
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Diamond, Will :Old church, Auckland [ca 1900?]
By: Diamond, Will, active 1900?
Reference: G-334
Description: Shows the ruins of St Thomas Church, Kohimarama, Rangitoto Island in background Inscriptions: Signed: Will Diamond Quantity: 1 oil(s). Physical Description: Oil on board 310 x 536 mm
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[Lloyd, Trevor] 1863-1937 :A lonely ruin, East Tamaki [ca 1920]
Date: 1910 - 1930
By: Lloyd, Trevor, 1863-1937
Reference: B-064-001
Description: Shows the ruins of a stone church, St Thomas' Anglican Church at Kohimarama Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 173 x 250 mm
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XII. View from below the road to the Tamaki church
Date: [1846]
From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph (Rev), 1824-1886: [Three sketchbooks of New Zealand scenes and people. 1844-1847]
By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886
Reference: E-111-2-013
Description: A view across what is probably west Tamaki, towards the Tamaki river, and further to Waiheke Islnd and the Coromandel Range. The artist's inscription also included 'Putiki', which might relate to Putiki Bay on Waiheke. Cabbage trees in the left foreground, and a small group of buildings on the right, likely to be a farm. This view is very similar to E-111-2-015, two pages ahead in this sketchbook, but taken from a slightly different vantage point. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) page. Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 180 x 260 mm
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XIV. View from below the road to the Tamaki church
Date: [1846]
From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph (Rev), 1824-1886: [Three sketchbooks of New Zealand scenes and people. 1844-1847]
By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886
Reference: E-111-2-015
Description: A view across what is probably west Tamaki, towards the Tamaki river, and further to Waiheke Islnd and the Coromandel Range. Cabbage trees and tree ferns in the left foreground, and a small group of buildings on the right, likely to be a farm. This view is very similar to E-111-2-013, two pages back in this sketchbook, but taken from a slightly different vantage point. Quantity: 1 sketchbook(s) page. Physical Description: Watercolour on page of sketchbook, 180 x 260 mm
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Ruins of St Thomas' Church at Kohimarama, Auckland
Date: [ca 1938]
From: Williams, P C :Photographs of Levin, Weraroa and Auckland c1900s
Reference: PAColl-0434-05
Description: The ruins of St Thomas' Church in a field in Kohimarama, Auckland. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Silver gelatin print
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Brodie, Rowena, 1855-1936: [Old St Thomas' Church and other identified buildings with R...
Date: Feb[ruary] 1898
By: Brodie, Rowena, 1855-1936; Brodie, Rena Frances, 1914-2013
Reference: B-168-017
Description: A view of the ruined Old St Thomas' church, with Rangitoto visible across Auckland Harbour. Other buildings and figues in the scene are identified on the verso as: 'Miss Bridson's house + post office originally built by Dr Elam'; 'St Thomas' Church was built on land given by Alexander Shepherd (1st Colonial Governor)'; 'Eldest Miss Bridson'; and 'School house'. The 'eldest Miss Bridson' might have been one of the daughters of William Bridson (1835-1923), who was a Clerk of the Native Land Court, having arrived in New Zealand in 1856. Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - Rowena Brodie / Feb 1898 [in pencil] Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour and pencil on card, 255 x 510 mm Provenance: From the estate of Rena Frances Brodie.
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Photographs of the New Zealand Association of Organists
Date: [ca 1960]-1969, 1994
From: New Zealand Association of Organists: Photographs
Reference: PAColl-10400-1
Description: Images relating to the New Zealand Association of Organists, including photograph of congress attendees in the 1960s and photographs of NZAO memorabilia taken circa 1980s and 1990s by unidenified photographers. Contains: - Group photographs of NZAO congress attendees in the 1960s. Photos are dated and attendees identified for the 1965, 1967 and 1969 congresses. Images taken by Green & Hahn and Klix Studio. - Also includes photographs showing: the stained glass window and organ at St Thomas Church at Tamaki in Auckland taken circa 1980s, NZAO banner, NZAO award to Eric Laird , NZAO Presidential chain, and NZAO Presidential chain worn by an unidentified woman, all taken circa 1990s. Quantity: 8 b&w original photographic print(s). 5 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints
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Album for autographs and literary gleanings collected by Ceci Brodie
Date: 1904-1927
From: Brodie family: [Sketchbooks, albums, and ephemera relating to the family of Captain Francis Brodie (1837-1916)]
Reference: E-112-q-4
Description: Album which belonged to Cecilia Brodie. The album has been used as an autograph or guest book with messages and sketches from friends and family. It contains art works, photographs, pig drawings, and written messages. Signatures include multiple members of the Mowbray family. One page of pig drawings is headed "Teachers' Pigs", another "Henderson Pigs". Artworks are by Cecilia Brodie as well as others. Some are sketched or painted into the volume and some are pasted in. Artworks feature horses, dogs, people, sail boats, and flowers. One watercolour shows a woman seated posing with golf clubs. Some artworks are copies and some are cartoons. Artworks include: Watercolour of St Thomas' Church with Rangitoto Island in the background, signed "A. M. Clark". Watercolour full length portrait of Soldiers of the 71st Highland Light Infantry (possibly Frank Brodie) by Orlando Norie (circa 1869). Pencil sketch of a frigate signed by James Richmond. Pastel drawing of a ship signed "Nelson Stedman 09". Watercolour depicting a crying child, signed by Trevor Lloyd. Pencil sketch of a man in military uniform signed "Beale 19[0]5" A watercolour and a photograph both signed "V. Souter". Watercolour signed "Stanley W. Jones NZ 1909". Photographs include: a man with a dog sitting on his lap, and a group of men and a dog sitting outside a house, a view of a house taken from the road, the interior of a sitting room, and a group portrait of men and women posed against some trees. A popular Edwardian trend was for guests to be blindfolded and asked to draw a pig in a visitor book. Other pig drawings are also in another album within this collection at E-112-q-2. Inscriptions: Album page - top left - Ceci Brodie / St Johns Lake / Remuera [in ink] Mowbray was Francis Brodie's mother Jane's maiden name. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Maroon cloth-bound cover with "Literary Gleanings" stamped in gold and decorative motif bands tooled in black, 222 x 175 mm. Processing information: Some but not all of the signatories are indexed.
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Scrapbook of personal events
Date: [1940-2001]
From: Kent-Johnston family : Family papers
By: Kent-Johnston, Isabella Christie Loma, 1918-2003
Reference: MS-Papers-7273-5
Description: Scrapbook of correspondence, reports, memorabilia, list of classmates (1949) programmes including 7th Inter-church School for Women (1961), clippings, reminiscences, poem and related papers Other Titles - Church of St Thomas, 1844-1969, by Selwyn College History Department Quantity: 1 folder(s).
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(40) New Zealand Church Architecture. No.6. St Thomas Tamaki. North west view
Date: Jan[uar]y 4 [1845]
From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph (Rev), 1824-1886: [Three sketchbooks of New Zealand scenes and people. 1844-1847]
By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886
Reference: E-111-1-051
Description: Hutton describes the building as: 'St Thomas Church Tamaki. This is the first stone church which has been built in New Zealand for the use of a Pakeha village. It is built in scoria which, being of a greyish colour, gives it at once the appearance of an old building. It is so built, that if more room be wanted, as is most probable there will be in no very long period, a nave be [...] out from the west end, the present ediface in such a case serving for the chancel. Mr Cotton does the duty there at present. It was opened for divine service on St Thomas' Day 1844.' Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - St Thomas Tamaki. East end [in pencil]; Recto - beneath image - New Zealand church architecture No. 5 [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, 160 x 200 mm
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(39) New Zealand Church Architecture. No.5. St Thomas Tamaki. East end
Date: Jan[uar]y 4 [1845]
From: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph (Rev), 1824-1886: [Three sketchbooks of New Zealand scenes and people. 1844-1847]
By: Hutton, Thomas Biddulph, 1824-1886
Reference: E-111-1-050
Description: Hutton describes the building as: 'St Thomas Church Tamaki. This is the first stone church which has been built in New Zealand for the use of a Pakeha village. It is built in scoria which, being of a greyish colour, gives it at once the appearance of an old building. It is so built, that if more room be wanted, as is most probable there will be in no very long period, a nave be [...] out from the west end, the present ediface in such a case serving for the chancel. Mr Cotton does the duty there at present. It was opened for divine service on St Thomas' Day 1844.' Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - St Thomas Tamaki. East end [in pencil]; Recto - beneath image - New Zealand church architecture No. 5 [in ink] Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on page of sketchbook, 160 x 200 mm
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Saint Thomas' Church, St Heliers, Auckland City
Date: 16 Mar 1960
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-52723
Description: Aerial photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Photographic negative
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Overgrown ruins of Saint Thomas's Church, St Heliers, Auckland
Date: 1930
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-25088-G
Description: Photo taken by Leo White Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches
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Saint Thomas Church ruins, Tamaki, Auckland
Date: 1948
From: Whites Aviation Ltd: Photographs
Reference: WA-11951-G
Description: Photograph taken by Whites Aviation. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Glass negative, 3.25 x 4.25 inches
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C E C :St Thomas's church, Tamaki. [1860s or later?]
Date: 1860 - 1900
By: C. E. C, active 1850s
Reference: A-143-001
Description: Shows St Thomas's church, Mission Bay, founded 1843; Rangitoto Island in the background, the foreground unfinished. The church is shown with ivy growing over the roof, partly ruined. It is in an empty field of untended grass, with trees behind to the right, three cabbage trees and another tree in front. The church, a stone one, fell into a state of disrepair and was no longer intact by the early twentieth century Inscriptions: Recto - bottom right - title and artist's initials, C. E. C. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour on paper, 204 x 380 mm