HASTINGS’ RED-LETTER DAY.
ERECTION OF NEW BUILDING
Per Press Association
Hastings, February 8
Yesterday was a red-letter day with the Anglicans at Hastings, the occasion being the consecration . f a now portion of St. Matthew’s Cb i. v *h bv the Bishop of Waiapu, assisted l-v Bishop Williams and Archdeacon Ruddock. The architecture of the new building is late Gothic, massively constructed in ferro-eoncrete- at a cost of £7900. It comprises the chancel for a morning chapel, an o>ran chamber, largo vestries, a’ 1 a tower 8U feet high. It is built on to tbo old wooden church', the intention being to demolish the latter and -’root a now nave, aisles, and transepts is a peace offering in the pres nit
The new building is a welcome addition to the architecture of (he town, which has been improved jaie.y by the completion of a handsome new banking house for the Union Bank.
Tenders will also be called diortiy for the erection of two large theatres, hank premises for the National Bank, and a large block of business nromises in Heretaunga street.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1915, Page 7
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181HASTINGS’ RED-LETTER DAY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 31, 8 February 1915, Page 7
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