ANGLICAN CHURCH CONSECRATED

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 198, 19 May 1941, Page 10

ANGLICAN CHURCH CONSECRATED

St. Jude’s, Lyall Bay

The church of St. Jude the Apostle, Lyall Bay, was consecrated by the Bishop of Wellington, the lit. Rev. IL St. Barbe Holland, at a special service yesterday, Rogation Sunday. The consecration marked the climax of IS years' hard endeavour by parishioners ol the district. The church itself is the most recent ot three buildings in which services have been conducted since a time previous to 1910. In 1910 the present hall was built and the services, which previously hail been held in a concrete building which now forms a lean-to to a house on Queen's Drive, were held in it. In 1923, a year after the late Rev. A. T. B. Page became vicar of the parochial district of Miramar, Seatoun, and Lyall Bay, plans were well afoot for the building of St. Jude's Church. Indeed, it was due largely to the energy and enthusiasm of the late Mr. Page that the church was built at a cost of £2257. The foundation stone was laid by the Rt. Rev. T. 11. Sprott, former Bishop of Wellington, on September 8, 19'23. and the church's dedication took place on March 1, 1924. In 1933 Lyall Bay was transferred from the parochial district of Miramar-Seatonn and attached to that of Berhampore, where it remained til) April 1. when it was constituted a parochial district of its own, having it:: own full time vicar, the Rev. A. F. IL Parr. formerly of All Saints, \\ anganui Easi.