Business South March 2021

| 9 COMMUNITY St Peter’s Anglican Church Restoration successfully combines old and new from page 6 “The church has had a myriad of additions and those additions all performed differently because the structural elements varied. So we had to get in and rebuild walls that were beyond repair, retaining as much as possible.” The shape of the church formed a cross with the transepts running north and south behind the chancel that sits at the front housing the altar, and the nave which is the church’s main body stretching from the main entrance to the transepts. While the chancel, the oldest part of the church, suffered the least amount of earth- quake damage, the transept walls collapsed through the earthquake shocks. “Although the stone church looks robust on the outside, internally it’s lined with brick, which is not as robust as stone. “The nave suffered extensive damage to the southern and northern walls and when we got into the repair there was a lot more damage than was obvious to the eye. “So the stonemasons completely rebuilt the northern wall of the Nave.” As well as the church’s significant heritage value, a key driver for undertaking the repair and strengthening project was that a complete rebuild was not an economic option. The repair also provided the parish the opportunity to modernise the church to meet the 21st century requirements of a growing parish, for no additional cost. The transepts were extended providing space for new kitchen and vestibule that will be a community hub for pastoral, musical, social and educational activities. “We also moved the restored Rieger organ to the southern transept. There’s also space for the choir there too. Relocating the organ was a major project and allows everyone to see it and the choir, rather than be hidden away.” The addition of a beautifully designed timber screen between Chancel and Nave pro- vides a small chapel, named The Nurse Maud Chapel of Compassion, for smaller services. “The project has been funded by a combi- nation of grants from individuals, organisa- tions, the parish itself and from earthquake proceeds.” Suzanne says funding applications were submitted to different organisations for differ- ent elements of the church. www.contech.co.nz Auckland Wellington Christchurch Tel (09) 274 9259 Tel (04) 569 1167 Tel (03) 339 0426 BBR Contech is pleased to have supplied and installed Macalloy Stainless Post-tensioning Systems and Sika FRP Strengthening System for Higgs Construction on the St Peter’s Church Restoration Project. Your preferred partner in developing innovative, quality and engineered solutions in the building and civil engineering construction industry CONTECH SPECIALIST CONTRACTING GOLDFIELD STONE LTD STONE AND BRICK BUILDING RESTORATION SPECIALISTS gold eldstone.co.nz Phone: 03 384 9673 Graham Stewart NZCCM - 027 443 4961 | 03 310 3036 e: stewartstainedglass@hotmail.com | 948 Loburn Whiterock Rd, RD 2 Rangiora TIMBER FLOOR SANDING & COATING • TIMBER REPAIRS • INSTALLATION 027 433 4550 www.sutherlandfloorsanding.co.nz sutherlandfloors@gmail.com . i . . i . “The church has had a myriad of additions and those additions all performed differently because the structural elements varied. So we had to get in and rebuild walls that were beyond repair, retaining as much as possible.”