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Notes: St Mary's Anglican Church, 329 Halswell Road, Christchurch.
St Mary’s on the Halswell, built in 1863, was the first Church to be built on the plains south of the city of Christchurch - ‘for fear the people would lose touch with Godliness.’Designed by Benjamin Mountford, the Church was built from local materials. The piles and buttress foundations used stone from Halswell Quarry; totara walls and black pine flooring was pit sawn timber from Kennedy’s Bush. The roof was clad in hand sawn shingles. The framed lead light windows came as a completed set shipped from London and in 1869 a commissioned bell arrived, requiring a bell tower to be erected.
The historic and pleasant cemetery is situated behind the church and through the 110 year old Lychgate.
The first recorded burial was that of Mary D Rochfort in 1867 followed in the same year by Elizabeth Barrett and George W Clark. The cemetery headstones are a history of the old and newer identities of the district.
 OpenStreetMap Latitude: -43.579594, Longitude: 172.567243
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 Betteridge, Martha | | St Mary's Church, Halswell, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand | I22179 |
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Bowman, Lilian Mary | | St Mary's Church, Halswell, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand | I21633 |
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Cahill, Mary | | St Mary's Church, Halswell, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand | I22180 |
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Downey, Charlotte | | St Mary's Church, Halswell, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand | I22168 |
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Rickerby, John | | St Mary's Church, Halswell, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand | I4067 |
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Rickerby, Robert | | St Mary's Church, Halswell, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand | I4064 |
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Rickerby, Robert | | St Mary's Church, Halswell, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand | I4070 |
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Rickerby, Thomas | | St Mary's Church, Halswell, Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand | I4068 |
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