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Heritage Incentive Grant.
The Christchurch City Council’s Heritage Incentive Grants Fund provides financial assistance to owners of heritage items listed in the City Plan and Banks Peninsula District Plan.
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1.
The Peterborough Centre
Christchurch's unique Gothic Revival identity has taken a battering in the last two years, but if the former Teachers' College can be saved, it would together with the Arts Centre and Christ's College provide the nucleus of an architectural precinct.
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Former Trinity Congregational Church
This now deconsecrated church was designed by the pre-eminent Canterbury colonial architect, Benjamin Mountfort. The church's impressive timber barrel vaulted interior is highly original and quite unlike any other space Mountfort designed. Furthermore, it was the first Montfort designed stone church to be built in New Zealand.
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3.
Knox Church
This Presbyterian Church is a city landmark which has served as a centre of Presbyterian worship and community in central Christchurch for over 130 years. The building still has its timber 'heart' but requires a new facade.
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4.
Christchurch Club
The Christchurch Club is one of the oldest gentlemen's clubs in the county. It was designed by the renowned architect, Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort in the Italian Villa style, a departure from his usual preference for the gothic idiom. Early members included the author Samuel Butler, and geologist Sir Julius von Haast.
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5.
Chippenham Lodge
Chippenham, a splendid 1862 gothic dwelling, was built for one of the colony's early run-holders. It is attributed to the region's foremost colonial architect, Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort. In 1971, it was purchased by the Heartwood Community for communal living and has remained in their ownership. Initial meetings of HART (Halt All Racist Tours) and Greenpeace NZ were held here.
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6.
Cranmer Bridge Club
This delightful timber building was designed at the turn of the 20th century by the renowned architect Samuel Hurst Seager. Interestingly, the detail of the porch area consciously references Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort's entrance to the Christchurch Club.
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7.
St Paul's Anglican Church
Finely crafted and detailed, both inside and out, this is one of Canterbury's most beautiful country churches built in the Arts and Crafts Style. Its picturesque setting, in the heart of Tai Tapu village, enhances its charm.
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St Bartholomew's Church
The Anglican Church of St Bartholomew's in Kaiapoi is the oldest surviving church in Canterbury. Described by its vicar in 1953 as that 'queer little "inverted V" ' building, it was designed by Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort, the pre-eminent Canterbury architect of the Victorian era, for the growing Anglican community of the 1850s.
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9.
St John's Anglican Church
This Hororata church was built in memory of Rose Anne Hall, following a bequest by her husband Sir John Hall, former Prime Minister of New Zealand. The local community are passionate about the restoration project.
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10.
St. Cuthbert's
This delightfully picturesque church is one of the oldest in the Canterbury diocese, connecting back to the province's Anglican foundations and early colonial history. With the loss of Holy Trinity Lyttelton, this Governor's Bay church is now the oldest remaining church in Lyttelton Harbour.
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Buildings Helped
1.
Cashmere Hills Presbyterian Church
2 Macmillan Avenue, Category II Historic Places (Register Number 1842) Listed on the Christchurch City Plan as group 3. $14.000.00 granted.
2.
St Barnabas Church, Fendalton
8 Tui Street Category I Historic Places (Register Number 3681) Listed on the Christchurch City Plan as group 1. $200,000.00 granted.
3.
Malthouse Theatre Trust
71 Colombo Street. Category II Historic Places (Register Number 1902) Listed on the Christchurch City Plan as group 2. $12,000.00 granted.
4.
Gunyah Country Estate
720 Sleemans Road, Glenroy. H117 Selwyn District Plan [Rural]. $25,000.00 granted.
5.
New Regent Street Collective
1-38 New Regent Street.Historic Places/Historic Area (Register Number 7057), Christchurch City Plan as group 2. $76,000.00 granted.
6.
CLJ Arts
137-139 High Street (unit in Duncan’s Building). Category II Historic Place (Register Number 1864), Listed on the Christchurch City Plan as group 3, $40,000.00 granted.
7.
Ward's Brewery
One of the two original malt kilns, which were used to dry the barley and develop the malt, has survived the earthquakes largely unscathed. The kiln is a superb example of industrial architecture. It is highly ornamented for a building which served an entirely functionary purpose.
8.
Former Trinity Congregational Church
124 Worcester Street (cnr Manchester and Worcester Street). Category I Historic Place (Register Number 306), Listed on the Christchurch City Plan as group 1. $225,000.00 granted for make-safe works.
9.
Isaac Theatre Royal
143-147 Gloucester Street. Category I Historic Place (Register Number 1936), Listed on the Christchurch City Plan as group 1. $501,200.00 granted.
10.
Hereford Chambers
167 Hereford Street, Christchurch. Not registered or listed. $140,000.00 granted
11.
Eliza's Manor House
82 Bealey Ave, Christchurch. Category II Historic Place (Register Number 1939), Listed on the Christchurch City Plan as group3 . $37,500.00 granted.
12.
Homebush Woolshed
Darfield, RD.1. Category I Historic Place (Register Number 9483), Listed on the Selwyn District Plan as historic. $95,925.00 granted.
13.
Knox Church
28 Bealey Avenue, Christchurch (Corner of Bealey Avenue and Victoria Street) Category II Historic Place (Register Number 3723) Listed on the Christchurch City Council City Plan as Group 1 $330,000.00 granted
14.
McKenzie & Willis
179 High Street, Christchurch City Listed as Group 2 on the Christchurch City Plan and registered as Category II with the NZHPT $1,000,000.00 granted
15.
Ironside House
32 Salisbury Street, Christchurch City Listed as Group 4 on the Christchurch City Plan $175,000.00 granted
16.
New City Hotel
527 Colombo Street, Christchurch City Registered as Category II with the NZHPT $142,132.00 granted
17.
Canterbury Club
129 Cambridge Terrace Listed as Group 2 on the Christchurch City Plan and registered as Category II with the NZHPT $28,720.00 granted
18.
Woods Mill
14 Wise Street, Addington Listed as Group 2 on the Christchurch City Plan and registered as Category II with the NZHPT $750,000.00 granted
19.
Victoria Black
201-203 High Street, Christchurch City Listed as Group 4 on the Christchurch City Plan $225,000.00 granted (plus an additional $5,000.00 has been set aside as a contingency)
20.
The Globe café (Former Billens Camping)
167-175 High Street, Christchurch City Listed as Group 4 on the Christchurch City Plan $750,000.00 granted
21.
Arts Centre
2 Worcester Boulevard Listed as Group 1 on the Christchurch City Plan and registered as Category I with the NZHPT $5,000,000.00 granted
22.
The Press Building
32 Cathedral Square, Christchurch City Listed as Group 1 on the Christchurch City Plan and registered as Category I with the NZHPT $5,000.00 granted (to retrieve the coat of arms from the Western entrance)
23.
Orton Bradley Park, Stables
439-584 Marine Drive, Orton Bradley Park, Charteris Bay Listed as Group 2 on the proposed Banks Peninsula Plan and registered as Category II with the NZHPT $90,000.00 granted (plus an additional $10,000.00 has been set aside as a contingency)
24.
Fifield House
14 Hawford, Christchurch City Listed as Group 4 on the Christchurch City Plan $15,000.00 granted
25.
Lodge of Unanimity No. 3, Lyttelton
6 St David’s Street, Lyttelton, Listed as Protected on the proposed Banks Peninsula District Plan and registered as Category II with the NZHPT (738) $300,000.00 granted