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Augustus Pugin to be fundamentally important to the Gothic style. The college posed a challenge in its main hall; on the hall's completion in 1882, it was the largest public space in Christchurch. Additionally, a level of detail not possible in previous works was present in the hall's design due to the superior funding for the college. The completion of the first stage was met with praise and optimism, though extensions such as a biological lab were added in the early 1890s. By the 1880s, Mountfort was hailed as New Zealand's premier
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public, civic bodies, and the church. His monumental Gothic stone civic buildings in
Christchurch, which would not be out of place in Oxford or Cambridge, are an amazing achievement over adversity of materials. His hallmark wooden Gothic churches today epitomise the 19th-century province of Canterbury. They are accepted, and indeed appear as part of the landscape. In this way, Benjamin Mountfort's achievement was to make his favoured style of architecture synonymous with the identity of the province of Canterbury. Following his death, one of his seven children,
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Mountfort discovered with the unseasoned wood in his first disastrous project. His first buildings in his new homeland were often too tall, or steeply pitched, failing to take account of the non-European climate and landscape. However, he soon adapted, and developed his skill in working with crude and unrefined materials.
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In 1872 Mountfort became a founding member of the
Canterbury Association of Architects, a body which was responsible for all subsequent development of the new city. Mountfort was now at the pinnacle of his career. Mountfort notably altered the use of a segmented arch rather than one in the Romanesque
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British Empire felt that Gothic architecture was suitable for the colonies because of its then strong Anglican connotations, representing hard work, morality and conversion of native peoples. The irony of this
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Mountfort. After completion of his training in 1848, Mountfort practised architecture in London. He married Emily Elizabeth Newman on 20 August 1850, and 18 days later the couple emigrated to New Zealand. They were some of the first settlers to the
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and supervising architect of the new cathedral project. This proposal was originally vetoed by the
Cathedral Commission. Nevertheless, following delays in the building work attributed to financial problems, the position of supervising architect was finally given to Mountfort in 1873. Mountfort was
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Mountfort's skill as an architect lay in adapting these flamboyant styles to suit the limited materials available in New
Zealand. While wooden churches are plentiful in certain parts of the US, they are generally of a simple classic design, whereas Mountfort's wooden churches in New Zealand are as
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Christchurch and its surrounding areas are unique in New Zealand for their particular style of Gothic architecture, something that can be directly attributed to Benjamin Mountfort. While Mountfort did accept small private domestic commissions, he is today better known for the designs executed for
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As the "Provincial Architect"—a newly created position to which Mountfort was appointed in 1864—Mountfort designed a wooden church for the Roman Catholic community of the city of Christchurch. This wooden erection was subsequently enlarged several times until it was renamed a cathedral. It was
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Christchurch was under heavy development at this time, as it had just been granted city status and the new administrative capital of the province of Canterbury. This provided Mountfort and Luck ample opportunity to practice their trade. In 1855 they produced a preliminary design for the new
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in timber. The buildings were constructed from 1857 to 1859, but in a more limited form than the original design. As the Provincial Council gained new functions with growth in the population and economy of the province, the buildings were enlarged with a North wing in stone and an
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by Mountfort was preserved. Mountfort often worked in wood, a material he in no way regarded as an impediment to the Gothic style, though he was unique in this respect as Gothic buildings were often created from stone and mortar. Between 1869 and 1882 he designed the
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much ornate Gothic fantasies as those he designed in stone. Perhaps the flamboyance of his work can be explained in a statement of principles he and his partner Luck wrote when bidding to win the commission to design Government House, Auckland in 1857:
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all five of them aged between 21 and 26. Life in New Zealand at first was hard and disappointing: Mountfort found that there was little call for architects. Christchurch was little more than a large village of basic wooden huts on a windswept plain.
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style to New Zealand. His Gothic designs constructed in both wood and stone in the province are considered unique to New Zealand. Today, he is considered the founding architect of the province of Canterbury.
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An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture.
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cathedral in miniature, neighboured by the roof of a
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province of Canterbury, arriving on one of the famed
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1795:Contemporary references to Mountfort's reputation
1696:Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture
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563:In 1888, he designed St John's Cathedral in
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2081:English emigrants to New Zealand
1767:A Concise History of New Zealand
1698:. Architectural Press, 20th ed.
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1780:Taylor, C.R.H. (1929).
1368:A History of Canterbury
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532:. He also designed the
2101:New Zealand Freemasons
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1800:26 August 2004 at the
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1671:"Benjamin Mountfort"
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1051:on 25 February 2009.
936:George Gilbert Scott
882:Lochhead 1999, p. 51
764:St John's, Rangiora.
739:, Papanui, 1876–1877
517:George Gilbert Scott
470:George Gilbert Scott
464:The construction of
456:Provincial Architect
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2106:Canterbury Pilgrims
1885:James Temple Fisher
1807:Mountfort centenary
1452:on 18 October 2008.
1424:on 14 October 2008.
1223:on 16 October 2008.
1038:Freemasons' Gazette
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519:, the architect of
404:Cambridge Movements
338:Gothic architecture
332:William Brassington
265:, built in 1852 by
2030:John Watts-Russell
1986:Sir George Seymour
1895:Benjamin Mountfort
1123:on 1 October 2008.
1096:on 16 October 2008
1069:on 19 October 2008
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