The Relevance of Gothic Revival Ideologies on the Rebuilding of the Christchurch Cathedral

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1 ,,,,, Christchurch 12:51pm 22 February 2011 The Reevance of Gothic Reviva Ideoogies on the Rebuiding of the Christchurch Cathedra

2 ,,,,, What reevance do Gothic revivaist ideoogies offer, not as aesthetic principes but as a design approach from which to rebuid Christchurch s Cathedra?

3 ,,,,, A comradeship between victor and vanquished. Peter Coeman 1986 Peter Coeman 1986

4 ,,,,, A Stye of Uniqueness Bending The Indigenous and the Introduced

5 ,,,,, A Stye of Uniqueness Bending The Indigenous and the Introduced An opportunity to move beyond the prevaiing aesthetic

6 Samue Marsden,,,,, The Evangeica Church Mission Society s

7 Samue Marsden Te Rauparaha,,,,, The Evangeica Church Mission Society + Maori s

8 Samue Marsden Te Rauparaha,,,,, + Rangiatea buit in 1843 by CMS missionaries and Maori Rangiatea buit in 1843 by CMS missionaries + Maori Rangiatea buit in 1843 by CMS missionaries and Maori

9 Samue Marsden Bishop Sewyn,,,,, Rangiatea buit in 1843 by CMS missionaries and Maori The emigration of Bishop Sewyn in 1841 Rangiatea buit in 1843 by CMS missionaries and Maori

10 Samue Marsden Bishop Sewyn,,,,, Rangiatea buit in 1843 by CMS missionaries and Maori The emigration of Bishop Sewyn in 1841 usurped the CMS Missionary work. Rangiatea buit in 1843 by CMS missionaries and Maori

Kowhaiwhai (rafter painting) and tukutuku (woven panes) were

11 Kowhaiwhai CMS Missionaries Bishop Sewyn,,,,, tukutuku Rangiatea buit in 1843 by CMS missionaries and Maori Kowhaiwhai (rafter painting) and tukutuku (woven panes) were a Rangiatea buit perverted in 1843 use by of CMS wood missionaries and Maori

12 Kowhaiwhai CMS Missionaries Bishop Sewyn,,,,, the coonia juggernaut, determined to turn New Zeaand into a better Britain, roed reentessy over everything in its way. John Stenhouse 1998 Rangiatea buit in 1843 by CMS missionaries and Maori

Deidre Brown 2000 Kowhaiwhai CMS Missionaries Bishop Sewyn,,,,, tukutuku the coonia

13 St James church, Mangere, New Zeaand. Designed by Sampson Kempthorne in the Sewyn Gothic Stye. Deidre Brown 2000 Kowhaiwhai CMS Missionaries Bishop Sewyn,,,,, tukutuku the coonia juggernaut, determined to turn New Zeaand into a better Britain, roed reentessy over everything in its way. John Stenhouse 1998 Rangiatea buit in 1843 by CMS missionaries and Maori

14 Rangiatea Church, Otaki. New Zeaand,,,,, Bishop Sewyn s attitudes impacted consideraby on the Cathedra s abiity to represent a new nation comprised of a burgeoning greatness and unity between indigenous and introduced peopes.

15 ,,,,, churches of the day and to procaim bod measures for their improvement the unovey physica state of the churches of the day and to procaim bod measures for their improvement. Aington 1965

16 Sewyn and the Society had judged that the andscape and Maori to be equay uncutivated. St Mary s Edinburgh Scotand Church of the Good Shepherd. Tekapo, South Isand, New Zeaand,,,,, the heathen coonia outposts ought to start near the beginning of the architectura adder and ony graduay reach the heights of decorated Gothic. Margaret Aington 1965atcher and St Pau's. An Eccesioogica Study: 22.

17 ,,,,, The deveopment of pointed architecture in other cimates must be a much harder task and we at home are the east fitted to attempt it. Eccesioogist 1866 Bishop Sewyn s initia approach diminished the abiity of Churches to withstand the cimate,but he did over the next two decades redefine the adherences to the Society, buiding materias and stye.

18 ,,,,, Bishop Sewyn s initia approach diminished the abiity of Churches to withstand the cimate, but he did over the next two decades redefine his adherences to the Society s dictates, buiding materias and stye.

19 ,,,,, Od St Pau s Cathedra, Thorndon, Weington (Frederick Thatcher 1866) Through informed materia choices and a ess rigid adherence to Eccesioogica dictates, St Pau s, sti stands today. Eccesioogica dictates, St Pau s, sti stands today.

20 L,,,,,, Bishop Henry John Harper

21 L,,,,,, Sir Gibert Scott

expression of the primitive ruggedness of what he imagined to be the Maori wood

22 L,,,,,, Scott designed an innovative hybrid for Christchurch Cathedra New Zeaand, combining a stone exterior with an independent wooden interior, at once an expression of the primitive ruggedness of what he imagined to be the Maori wood traditions and an experimenta response for this earthquake prone coony. Dr Robin Skinner 2010

23 First scheme- Interior framing Christchurch s Cathedra Timber construction-rangiatea L,,,,,, Scott designed an innovative hybrid for Christchurch Cathedra New Zeaand, combining a stone exterior with an independent wooden interior, at once an expression of the primitive ruggedness of what he imagined to be the Maori wood traditions and an experimenta response for this earthquake prone coony. Dr Robin Skinner 2010

24 L,,,,,, Scott designed an innovative hybrid for Christchurch Cathedra New Zeaand, combining a stone exterior with an independent wooden interior, at once an expression of the primitive ruggedness of what he imagined to be the Maori wood traditions and an experimenta response for this earthquake prone coony. Dr Robin Skinner 2010

25 L,,,,,, Two picturesque isands dominated by sheep and Engish traditions. John Coeman 1986

26 L,,,, Te Rauparaha-rangatira New Zeaand s second pie of Angican ruins

27 Te Rauparaha-rangatira tt tt L,,,, restoration is destruction; ancient buidings shoud be preserved, but no attempts shoud be made to erase the accumuated history encoded in their decay.

28 Te Rauparaha-rangatira tt tt L,,,,,, Quotes taken from the draft recovery pan for Christchurch 2012 restoration is destruction; ancient buidings shoud be preserved, but no attempts shoud be made to erase the accumuated history encoded in their decay

29 References Aington, Margaret. Frederick Thatcher and St Pau's. An Eccesioogica Study. Weington: R.E Owen, Bradshaw, H.G and John. "Christchurch Cathedra, New Zeaand: A Tak with Dr John C. Bradshaw." The Musica Times 64, no. 963 (1923): Bremner, G Aex. ""Some Imperia Institute": Architecture, Symboism, and the Idea of Empire in Late Victorian Britain " Journa for the Society of Architectura Historians 62, no. 1 (2003): tt Brown, Deidre. "The Maori Response to Gothic Architecture." Architectura History 43 (2000): tt L,,,, Coeman, Peter J. "The Amost New Word." Wison Quartery 10, no. 2 (1986): "Eccesioogist." 7 (1866). Kempthorne, Ren. "Sewyn's Samson: Sampson Kempthorne." Journeyings 10, no. 2 (1997): Skinner, Robin. "Drawing from an Indigenous Tradition? George Gibert Scott's First Design for Christchurch's Cathedra, " Architectura History 53 (2010): Stenhouse, John. "Churches, State and the New Zeaand Wars: " Journa of Law and Reigion 13, no. 2 ( ): nan suivan victoria university weington new zeaand nan o suivan victoria university weington new zeaand

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