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St Andrew’s on The Terrace

The colour palette is deliberately made up of warm hues to brighten the church and provide a welcoming environment.

St Andrew’s on The Terrace

St Andrew’s on The Terrace has a history dating back to the arrival of the first European settler ships in 1840. It moved from its original location of Lambton Quay to the present site in 1878 likely due to the growing demand and increasing property value of waterfront land.

St Andrews has occupied several buildings since the parish began in 1840. The current church building is registered as Category 1 on the New Zealand Historic Places Register. Originally built in 1923, it is the second church to occupy this space. The church building is notable for architectural, historical and cultural reasons. Built in a striking neo-baroque style it is unique to Wellington and rare even on an international scale.

St Andrew’s on The Terrace - exterior

With such uniqueness comes the need to maintain the building for the future. As a result an extensive project of structural refurbishment has been undertaken. All original detailing has been carefully retained. The exterior is finished in a custom colour ‘Praise’ complemented by Resene Half Spanish White (complex neutral) on windows and frames and Resene Persian Red (antique red) on exterior doors.

The interior was also refurbished. The existing substrate was in poor condition with original horse hair plasterwork. There was historical water damage and the church required industrial drying. Surfaces were prepared with Resene Sureseal to bind the flaky plaster and provide a suitable surface for topcoating in Environmental Choice approved Resene SpaceCote Low Sheen on walls and ceilings, and Resene Lustacryl semi-gloss waterborne enamel on trim and joinery. All panelling was painstakingly brushed to retain the original detailing.

St Andrew’s on The Terrace - interior

The colour palette is deliberately made up of warm hues to brighten the church and provide a welcoming environment. Walls feature Resene Splash (ochre yellow) complemented by columns and detailing in Resene Pearl Lusta (classic cream), window sashes and frames in Resene Alabaster (blackened white) and ceiling panels in Resene Oxygen (soft grey blue).

The church is very open to the community. Serving as both a church and a venue for musical performances and public events such as the Fringe Festival launch, it is considered to have the best acoustics of any Wellington performance space of its type. Offering public events encourages wider community involvement and allows people who might not normally attend church services to experience the church and its services in all its new splendour… with the hope that they might just return to enjoy the wider church experience.

St Andrew’s on The Terrace - interior repaint

Resene Alabaster

Resene Half Spanish White

Architect: John Rowe and Benjamin Keegan, Opus Architecture
Building Contractor: Ebert Construction
Painting Contractor: Denis Laws, Integrated Painting & Coatings Ltd
Structural Engineer: Jon Hill, Opus International Consultants Ltd
Resene: Deane Foyne, Resene Trade Representative; Darren Morgan, Wellington Branch Manager
From the Resene News – issue 2/2010

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