The Anglican church yesterday announced members of Canterbury's synod will now decide the earthquake damaged cathedral's future at its meeting in September.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield. Damaged spire-tops lie on the ground after being removed from the church tower".
The site of the demolished St. John's Anglican Church on Latimer Square. On the left is the former site of the CTV building.
A video of a protest against the demolition of ChristChurch Cathedral. The protest is being held outside St Christopher's Church in Avonhead. The video includes footage of both the Christchurch Wizard and Bishop Victoria Matthews speaking to the protesters.
Anglican and Catholic churches will unite today, holding services with cathedral bells tolling throughout the country in remembrance of those who died in the Christchurch earthquake.
The vacant lot left after the demolition of St. John's Anglican Church on Latimer Square. The empty section in back was where CTV building use to be.
The vacant lot left after the demolition of St. John's Anglican Church on Latimer Square. The empty section in back was where CTV building use to be.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield. (L to R): Builder Kevin Deam and St. Mary's parishioner Craig Perkins inspect a damaged spire on the church tower".
A PDF copy of page 238 of the book Christchurch: The Transitional City Pt IV. The page documents the transitional project 'The Anglican Cathedral'. Note that images have been removed from the page for copyright reasons.
A video of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams touring the Christchurch central city Red Zone. Williams visited Christchurch for two days during his New Zealand tour to offer his support to the city. The video includes footage of Williams visiting the ChristChurch Cathedral, and meeting locals. It also includes an interview with Williams about the demolition of the ChristChurch Cathedral.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield. Damage can be seen to the spires on the church tower. The spire-tops were removed for safety and to be repaired".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "St. Mary's Anglican Church in Timaru is cordoned off due to the risk of falling masonry after the 7.1 magnitude earthquake centered near Darfield".
A booklet compiled in 2011 by Fiona Summerfield, containing stories from the Parish of Burnside-Harewood, and the liturgy from a memorial service held one week after the 22 February 2011 earthquake.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield . (L to R): St. Mary's parishioner Craig Perkins and builder Kevin Deam secure the final damaged spire to be removed from the church tower".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield. The last damaged spire-top is removed from the church tower, secured to the crane by St. Mary's parishioner Craig Perkins (obscured) and builder Kevin Deam".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield . (L to R): Builder Kevin Deam and St. Mary's parishioner Craig Perkins are hoisted by crane to remove the last damaged spire from the church tower".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield. (L to R): Builder Kevin Deam and St. Mary's parishioner Craig Perkins are hoisted by crane to remove the last damaged spire from the church tower".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield . The final damaged spire is removed from the church tower by crane, secured by (L to R): St. Mary's parishioner Craig Perkins and builder Kevin Deam".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield. (L to R): Builder Kevin Deam and St. Mary's parishioner Craig Perkins are moved into position by crane to remove damaged spire-tops from the church tower".
A video of a tour through the Christchurch central city Red Zone. The video includes footage of Armagh Street, Madras Street, Latimer Square, St John's Anglican Church, Hereford Street, the Octagon Live restaurant, the Design and Arts building, the High Street mall, and the Grand Chancellor Hotel. It also includes footage of construction workers cutting up metal beams, and clearing rubble from a building on Manchester Street.
The vacant lot left after the demolition of St. John's Anglican Church on Latimer Square. On site is a shipping container, and next to it looks like a pile of recyclable concrete pieces.
Looking through the cordon fence from the vacant site from the demolition of St. John's Anglican Church on Latimer Square. The empty section it looks to is where CTV building use to be.
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield . (L to R): St. Mary's parishioner Craig Perkins and builder Kevin Deam are moved into position by crane to remove the last damaged spire from the church tower".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Vicar Nick Mountfort is opening the doors at St Johns Anglican church on Friday night for the community to come and light a candle in thanksgiving for surviving the recent earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Vicar Nick Mountfort is opening the doors at St Johns Anglican church on Friday night for the community to come and light a candle in thanksgiving for surviving the recent earthquake".
Photograph captioned by Fairfax, "Damage to St. Mary's Anglican Church Timaru resulting from 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake centred near Darfield. (L to R on ground): Archdeacon Andrew Starky; Vicar Indrea Alexander and Concillor Ray Bennett watch as Craig Perkins and Kevin Deam are hoisted by crane to remove damaged spires from the church tower. (L to R): Builder Kevin Deam and St. Mary's parishioner Craig Perkins inspect a damaged spire on the church tower".
A woman in a burqa walks out of the 'Church of the Multi-denominations'. The church has a steeple and an onion dome. Context: The cartoonist says that the cartoon was drawn for a satirical piece about the rebuilding of Christchurch. Because of the number of churches damaged, including the Anglican cathedral, The cartoon suggests that there should just build one massive church on the AMI stadium site that all religions can use on their particular day....spires would be raised and lowered etc. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
2 Minutes Silence - Anglican Church, Cnr Saint John St & Ferry Rd (01.03.2011) Woolston Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. +...
2 Minutes Silence - Anglican Church, Cnr Saint John St & Ferry Rd (01.03.2011) Woolston Christchurch Canterbury New Zealand © 2011 Phil Le Cren Photo Taken With: Canon EOS 1000D + Canon EF/EF-S lenses + 10.1 effective megapixels + 2.5-inch TFT color LCD monitor + Eye-level pentamirror SLR + Live View shooting. +...
The cartoon depicts a rose window set in a stone wall. The glass circles each contain a dollar sign. Refers to the future of the Christchurch Cathedral after the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. The Anglican Church seemed to only consider the money in arguing that it would be too expensive to be repaired or rebuilt. Title from file name Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).