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Benjamin Mountfort, the Glossary

Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort (13 March 1825 – 15 March 1898) was an English emigrant to New Zealand, where he became one of the country's most prominent 19th-century architects.^[1]

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19th-century New Zealand architects
Architects from Christchurch
Burials at Holy Trinity Avonside
Canterbury Pilgrims
New Zealand Anglo-Catholics
New Zealand ecclesiastical architects
People associated with the Canterbury Society of Arts

Alfred Waterhouse

Alfred Waterhouse (19 July 1830 – 22 August 1905) was an English architect, particularly associated with Gothic Revival architecture, although he designed using other architectural styles as well. Benjamin Mountfort and Alfred Waterhouse are Gothic Revival architects.

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An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand

An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand is an official encyclopaedia about New Zealand, published in three volumes by the New Zealand Government in 1966.

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Anglo-Catholicism

Anglo-Catholicism comprises beliefs and practices that emphasize the Catholic heritage and identity of the Church of England and various churches within the Anglican Communion.

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Auckland

Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. It has an urban population of about It is located in the greater Auckland Region, the area governed by Auckland Council, which includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf, and which has a total population of as of It is the most populous city of New Zealand and the fifth largest city in Oceania.

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Augustus Pugin

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1 March 1812 – 14 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swiss origins. Benjamin Mountfort and Augustus Pugin are English ecclesiastical architects and Gothic Revival architects.

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Baptismal font

A baptismal font is an ecclesiastical architectural element, which serves as a receptacle for baptismal water used for baptism, as a part of Christian initiation for both rites of infant and adult baptism.

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Baroque architecture

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.

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Bell tower

A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none.

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Beth El Synagogue, Christchurch

The Beth El Synagogue in Christchurch, New Zealand, was located at 78 Gloucester Street.

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Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.

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Cambridge movement (philosophy)

The Cambridge movement was a conservative ideological school of thought closely related to the Oxford Movement.

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Canterbury Museum, Christchurch

The Canterbury Museum is a museum located in the central city of Christchurch, New Zealand, in the city's Cultural Precinct.

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Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings

The Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings were the buildings of the Canterbury Provincial Council that administered the Canterbury Province from 1853 until the abolition of provincial government in 1876.

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Canterbury Region

Canterbury (Waitaha) is a region of New Zealand, located in the central-eastern South Island.

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Cathedral Square, Christchurch

Cathedral Square, locally known simply as the Square, is the geographical centre and heart of Christchurch, New Zealand, where the city's Anglican cathedral, ChristChurch Cathedral is located.

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Cenotaph

A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.

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Charlotte Jane

Charlotte Jane was one of the First Four Ships in 1850 to carry emigrants from England to the new colony of Canterbury in New Zealand.

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Christ Church Cathedral, Christchurch

ChristChurch Cathedral, also called Christ Church Cathedral and (rarely) Cathedral Church of Christ, is a deconsecrated Anglican cathedral in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Christ's College Chapel

Christ's College Chapel is part of Christ's College, Christchurch.

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Christchurch

Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island and the second-largest city by urban area population in New Zealand, after Auckland.

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Christchurch Arts Centre

The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora is a hub for arts, culture, education, creativity and entrepreneurship in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch City Libraries is a network of 21 libraries and a mobile book bus.

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Church (building)

A church, church building, or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities.

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Church of England

The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies.

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Church of the Good Shepherd, Christchurch

The Church of the Good Shepherd was an Anglican church in Phillipstown, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Classicism

Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate.

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Clerk of works

A clerk of works or clerk of the works (CoW) is employed by an architect or a client on a construction site.

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Cyril Mountfort

Cyril Julian Mountfort (5 October 1853 – 23 November 1920) was a New Zealand ecclesiastical architect. Benjamin Mountfort and Cyril Mountfort are architects from Christchurch and Burials at Holy Trinity Avonside.

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Diocese

In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.

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Dunedin

Dunedin (Ōtepoti) is the second-largest city in the South Island of New Zealand (after Christchurch), and the principal city of the Otago region.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.

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First Four Ships

The First Four Ships refers to the four sailing vessels chartered by the Canterbury Association which left Plymouth, England, in September 1850 to transport the first English settlers to new homes in Canterbury, New Zealand. Benjamin Mountfort and first Four Ships are Canterbury Pilgrims.

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Francis Petre

Francis William Petre (27 August 1847 – 10 December 1918), sometimes known as Frank Petre, was a New Zealand-born architect based in Dunedin. Benjamin Mountfort and Francis Petre are 19th-century New Zealand architects and new Zealand ecclesiastical architects.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Gable

A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.

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George Gilbert Scott

Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), largely known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started his career as a leading designer of workhouses. Benjamin Mountfort and George Gilbert Scott are English ecclesiastical architects and Gothic Revival architects.

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Gothic architecture

Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.

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Holy Trinity Avonside

Holy Trinity Avonside was a heritage-listed Anglican church located in Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand. Benjamin Mountfort and Holy Trinity Avonside are Burials at Holy Trinity Avonside.

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Isaac Luck

Isaac Luck (12 May 1817 – 15 December 1881) was a New Zealand architect. Benjamin Mountfort and Isaac Luck are 19th-century New Zealand architects.

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John Ruskin

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art historian, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era.

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Johnny Jones (pioneer)

John Jones (March 1809 – 16 March 1869) was a trader and settler in New Zealand.

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Lancet window

A lancet window is a tall, narrow window with a sharp lancet pointed arch at its top.

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Lyttelton, New Zealand

Lyttelton (Ōhinehou or Riritana) is a port town on the north shore of Lyttelton Harbour / Whakaraupō, at the northwestern end of Banks Peninsula and close to Christchurch, on the eastern coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

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Masonic lodge

A Masonic lodge, also called a private lodge or constituent lodge, is the basic organisational unit of Freemasonry.

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Midlands

The Midlands is the central part of England, bordered by Wales, Northern England, Southern England and the North Sea.

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Ministry for Culture and Heritage

The Ministry for Culture and Heritage (MCH) is the department of the New Zealand Government responsible for supporting the arts, culture, built heritage, sport and recreation, and broadcasting sectors in New Zealand and advising government on such.

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Napier, New Zealand

Napier (Ahuriri) is a city on the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Hawke's Bay region.

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Oxford Movement

The Oxford Movement was a movement of high church members of the Church of England which began in the 1830s and eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.

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Palladian architecture

Palladian architecture is a European architectural style derived from the work of the Venetian architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580).

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Porch

A porch (from Old French porche, from Latin porticus "colonnade", from porta "passage") is a room or gallery located in front of an entrance of a building.

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Richard Cromwell Carpenter

Richard Cromwell Carpenter (21 October 1812 – 27 March 1855) was an English architect. Benjamin Mountfort and Richard Cromwell Carpenter are English Anglo-Catholics, English ecclesiastical architects and Gothic Revival architects.

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Robert Lawson (architect)

Robert Arthur Lawson (1 January 1833 – 3 December 1902) was one of New Zealand's pre-eminent 19th century architects. Benjamin Mountfort and Robert Lawson (architect) are 19th-century New Zealand architects, Gothic Revival architects and new Zealand ecclesiastical architects.

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Romanesque architecture

Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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South Island

The South Island (Te Waipounamu, 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or historically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.

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St John the Baptist Church, Christchurch

St John the Baptist Church is a former Anglican church that was located in Latimer Square, Christchurch, New Zealand.

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St Luke's Church, Christchurch

St Luke's Church was an Anglican church located in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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St Mary's Cathedral, Auckland

St Mary's Cathedral Church, also known as St Mary's Church, is an Anglican church located in Parnell Road, Parnell, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.

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St Paul's Anglican Church, Papanui

St Paul's Anglican Church is an heritage-listed Anglican church located in the suburb of Papanui, Christchurch, in the South Island of New Zealand.

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Sunnyside Hospital

Sunnyside Hospital (1863–1999) was the first mental asylum to be built in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Trinity Congregational Church, Christchurch

The Trinity Church or Trinity Congregational Church designed by Benjamin Mountfort, later called the State Trinity Centre, is a Category I heritage building listed with Heritage New Zealand.

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University of Canterbury

The University of Canterbury (UC; Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation Cantuar. or Cant. for Cantuariensis, the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Victoria Clock Tower

The Victoria Clock Tower, also known as the Diamond Jubilee Clock Tower, is a heritage-registered clock tower located in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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Waikouaiti

Waikouaiti is a small town in East Otago, New Zealand, within the city limits of Dunedin.

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William Brassington

William Brassington (1837 or 1841 – 3 March 1905) was a stonemason, sculptor and builder practising in Christchurch, New Zealand in the late 19th century.

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1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake

The 1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, also known as the Napier earthquake, occurred in New Zealand at 10:47 am on 3 February, killing 256,The exact number of deaths varies according to different sources; the New Zealand Listener article cited below gives 258 deaths, but the Bateman New Zealand Encyclopedia gives 256.

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