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The St Andrews Isle. In 1978, St Andrews Church combined with First Church and several of the furnishings in the north -eastern corner of the sanctuary come from there. In recognition of this move, the Isle on the northern side of the church was renamed the St Andrews Isle. First Church is then the keeper […]

The Tapestry. In 1990, to mark the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Presbyterian Church in New Zealand, the women of First Church collaborated on the stunning tapestry that hangs on the southern wall of the sanctuary. It took 19 women a total of 6 ,000 hours over six years to complete the work. […]

Welcome to First Church. When the first ships of Scottish settlers arrived in the 1840s, they carried with them, in the fleet, a limited supply of building material that was sufficient to construct a small school, which the settlers also used as a church for Sunday worship. The people who gathered constituted The First Church, […]

The Organ. For almost 40 years, first church worship was conducted with an unaccompanied singing of the biblical Psalms. This was the hallmark, Presbyterianism, the world over. The remnants of which can still be heard on the singing of The Old Hundredth, which states back to Calvinist Geneva, Salta, and the well-known 23rd Psalm, the […]