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Wesleyan mission, Wellington, 1845

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Wesleyan mission, Wellington, 1845

This handsome Wesleyan chapel, with its schoolhouse alongside, was built in 1845 in early Wellington's Manners Street. Three years later it was destroyed in the great earthquake of 1848. This watercolour painting of the building was made in 1845 and published as an engraving in 1852.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: B-051-018

by Samuel Charles Brees

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Tim Shoebridge, Methodist Church – The settler church, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/27513/wesleyan-mission-wellington-1845 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Tim Shoebridge, published 30 March 2011.