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Onehunga, the business area being near the beach at the foot of Norman's Hill. Since then the church has seen Onehunga growaround it, until today it stands at the heart of the town. In its grounds lie the remains of its pioneers side by side with the unfortunate sailors of H.M.S. Orpheus, wrecked on the Manukau Bar 67 years ago.
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St. Peter's, Onehunga was opened for worship in 1848, just as the isthmus was being settled by military pensioners from
England, and there are still living some three or four of their descendants who, as children, saw it being built. In 1858 the building was enlarged, when the existing tower and
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Auckland architect D.B. Patterson. Due to timber degradation, the congregation chose to construct a new church which wrapped around the earlier structure. By 1980,
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