St Mary’s Church Pleasant Point - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 14 Oct 2021 01:28:14 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg St Mary’s Church Pleasant Point - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 New Pleasant Point church starts to take shape https://cathnews.co.nz/2021/10/14/pleasant-point-st-marys-church/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 06:54:22 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=141457 Framing for the new $1million St Mary's Church in Pleasant Point is going up. The former 1889 historic church on the site was demolished in July after it was closed in 2011 due to earthquake damage. Opihi Parish finance chairman Mark Robins​ said the new church would seat 70 but would not have a steeple Read more

New Pleasant Point church starts to take shape... Read more]]> Framing for the new $1million St Mary's Church in Pleasant Point is going up.

The former 1889 historic church on the site was demolished in July after it was closed in 2011 due to earthquake damage.

Opihi Parish finance chairman Mark Robins​ said the new church would seat 70 but would not have a steeple as it would have cost too much.

Building started on the project in August just three weeks after the demolition of the earthquake damaged church. Read more

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