St Barnabas Church, Warrington
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St Barnabas Church is a small wooden Anglican church in Warrington, New Zealand. It is about 130 years old.
Warrington is one of the oldest areas of English colonisation in Otago, normally regarded as a Scottish-influenced part of New Zealand. For this reason the oldest Christian churches in the immediate area tend to be Anglican.
The church building and its community are named after St Barnabas, one of the first prophets and teachers of the Christian Church at Antioch. With Holy Trinity Church, Port Chalmers, St Barnabas Church is now part of the Port Chalmers-Warrington Parish of the Anglican Diocese of Dunedin.
The church is set in woodland and is surrounded by a cemetery. Otago's first Anglican Bishop, Samuel Tarratt Nevill is buried here. A traditional lych gate marks the entrance from Coast Road.
The church is built in board and batten with a wooden shingle roof and a small copper-tipped tower, fitted with a bell inside. The stained glass windows are unusually elaborate for such a small building. They depict among others St Joan of Arc and Christ the Redeemer.
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St Barnabas Church website [[1]]
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