Day 213 - Old St Paul's

Old St Paul's

Historical non-denominational church in Thorndon

Day 212 - St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral

Thorndon

Day 175 - Anglican church

Anglican church

Chatham Island

This is the tiny Anglican church on Chatham Island, the site of four family baptisms on Christmas Day. The service started out informally and then deteriorated rapidly with two of the children being baptised protesting loudly and numerous parents and godparents trying to collectively calm down an hysterical crescendo of screams! All of my father's siblings were baptised at this church, many of my cousins, and now most of their own children. It only seats about 30 people, almost the number of family members who were present at the baptism that day.