The Anglican Parish of St Michael and All Angels
Timber Gothic Revival church with a detached belfry housing a bell from the first settler ships.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Anglican Parish of St Michael and All Angels in Christchurch is about a job rather than a building: ringing the bell that came out on the Charlotte Jane in eighteen fifty. It follows the people on the end of the rope, from the settlement years through the churchwardens of the eighteen sixties to the schoolchildren of the twentieth century. Stand near the small wooden belfry beside the church while you listen.
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