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The Cyclopedia of New Zealand [Nelson, Marlborough & Westland Provincial Districts]

The Church of the Nativity

The Church of the Nativity . The history of the Anglican Church in Blenheim dates back to 1857, when the Ven. Archdeacon Butt resigned his cure in Nelson, and removed to the page 331 Wairau. At the first he conducted his services, alternately with the Presbyterians, in a small building that had been erected by Mr. Sinclair for a courthouse. The Archdeacon built the first Church of the Nativity in 1860, and this building, which stands at the back of the present one, is now used as a Sunday school. The present Church of the Nativity is a large wooden building supported by buttresses, and fronted with a square entrance tower. It was built in 1877, and is surrounded by a large block of ground, laid down in grass, and planted with shrubs and trees. The vicarage, a two-storied building standing in the church grounds, was erected in 1874.