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	Benjamin Mountfort Information
		Mountfort was born in Birmingham, an industrial city in the Midlands of England, the son of perfume manufacturer Thomas Mountfort and his wife Susanna (née Woolfield).
		Mountfort was a Freemason and an early member of the Lodge of Unanimity, and the only building he designed during this period of his life, in 1851, was its lodge.
		Mountfort's Gothic in wood, designed in 1872, has the campanile of a medieval cathedral in miniature, neighboured by the roof of a chateau, entered by the lych gate of an English parish church, all successfully harmonised into a New Zealand landscape.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Benjamin_Mountfort (2628 words)

	DNZB / BIOGRAPHY
		Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort was born on 13 March 1825, according to family information, and was baptised at Birmingham, England, on 1 September 1825.
		Benjamin Mountfort's lifelong devotion to the Gothic style and his adherence to ecclesiological principles are directly attributable to his training with Carpenter.
		Mountfort was a devout member of the Church of England, and was regarded as the leading lay member of the High Church movement in Canterbury.
	www.dnzb.govt.nz /dnzb/Essay_Body.asp?PersonEssay=1M57&QuickSearch=true (1045 words)

	Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival - Early Christchurch - Heritage - Christchurch City Libraries
		Carpenter was an important member of the Gothic Revival and was a strong influence on Mountfort's architectural style.
		This incident did not help Mountfort's career at first, although it was his knowledge of local timber and conditions that was the problem, not his skill as an architect.
		By the 1880s Mountfort was recognised as the country's leading church architect, with the design of over forty churches to his name.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /heritage/earlychristchurch/benjaminmountfortandthegothicrevival.asp (528 words)

	Benjamin Mountfort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canterbury College, designed by Benjamin Mountfort in 1877, is dominated by a central clock tower, with a medieval style great hall to the right.
		Carpenter was, like Mountfort, a devout Anglo-Catholic and subscribed to the theories of Tractarianism, and thus to the Oxford and Cambridge Movements.
		Cyril Mountfort was responsible for the church of "St. Luke's in the City" which was an unexecuted design of his father's.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_Mountfort (2657 words)

	New Zealand Benjamin Mountfort
		Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort was born in March 1825 and was an English emigre to New Zealand.
		Benjamin Mountfort became a famous architect in the nineteenth century.
		Mountfort has a very bad start when he came in New Zealand; his first commission was in Lyttelton, the Church of the most Holy Trinity which broke down in high winds not long after achievement.
	www.new-zealand-nz.net /christchurch/benjamin_mountfort.html (252 words)

	Benjamin Mountfort - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort (13 March 1825–15 March 1898) was an English emigrant to New Zealand, where he became one of that country's most prominent 19th century architects.
		Mountfort's early Gothic work in New Zealand was of the more severe Anglican variety as practised by Carpenter, with tall lancet windows and many gables.
		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.
	www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Benjamin_Mountfort (2662 words)

	St Marys Brief History
		Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort, architect of many superb buildings in New Zealand, was invited to design a church in brick and stone.
		This proved to be far more expensive than anticipated, so Mountfort redesigned the church to enable it to be built in wood.
		Bishop John Richardson Selwyn, son of Bishop G.A. Selwyn and Bishop of Melanesia, gave an address at the laying of the foundation stone by the Primate of New Zealand, Bishop H.J.C. Harper on 6th February 1886.
	www.holy-trinity.org.nz /78.php (277 words)

	PrisonPhotos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Not long before closing it was claimed that prisoners naming themselves after Hogan's Heroes were nipping out for the night through a hole in the roof.
		Mountfort was instrumental of most Christchurch' Victorian buildings, namely the Provincial Chambers, Canterbury Museum, University, the first Art Gallery, most of the provinces early churches.
		With the surrounding buildings now demolished, the prison building can be viewed as it was, as grim as anything anyone had to suffer in colonial times as we overlook that side of our history.
	www.railtoursnz.com /prisonphotos.html (399 words)

	Register of Historic Places
		Mountfort was one of the foremost architects in Victorian New Zealand and, according to architectural historian Ian Lochhead, ‘did most to shape the architectural character of nineteenth-century Christchurch.’ In 1854 Mountfort prepared his initial plans for the Provincial Council buildings, which were to consist of a two-storeyed timber complex surrounding an enclosed courtyard.
		The complex was to be Gothic in style; Mountfort being, as Lochhead argues, a champion of the Gothic style and conscious of Sir Charles Barry and A.W.N. Pugin’s Gothic design for the Houses of Parliament, London, formally opened in 1852.
		Mountfort dealt with the potentially awkward transition between the stone chamber and the much lower wooden building with a gable, which sits midway between the heights of the buildings on either side.
	www.historic.org.nz /Register/ListingDetail.asp?RID=45&sm= (1288 words)

	History - St Luke's in the City
		The design of St Luke's is closely related to two of Benjamin Mountfort's churches of the 1880's - The Church of the Good Shepherd, Phillipstown, begun 1884, and St John's Cathedral, Napier, 1886.
		The brick piers flanking the nave have been carried over from the design of the Napier Cathedral which was destroyed in the 1931 earthquake but, because of the smaller scale of St Luke's, have also been reduced in size, bearing a pinched look.
		Cyril Mountfort employed many of the forms and motifs derived from his father's works but has not always been able to weld them into a distinctive and unified whole.
	www.stlukesinthecity.org.nz /building_default/history_main_page.htm (1074 words)

	Christchurch Cathedral, New Zealand
		The direction of the work was entrusted to Benjamin Mountfort, who modified Scott's plan by adding turrets, pinnacles and small balconies.
		The building was completed in 1904, 6 years after Mountfort's death and 40 years after the start of work - though the first services were held in the nave in 1881.
		In the interior of this monumental church are a series of pictures illustrating the history of the Anglican church and its bishops in New Zealand.
	www.planetware.com /christchurch/christchurch-cathedral-nz-cb-ccc.htm (188 words)

	The Press: local, national & world news from Christchurch's daily newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mountfort's concern for the depletion of native woods is reflected in a wide spectrum of her art.
		Mountfort used circular motifs and mandala as universal symbols of equilibrium and harmony.
		Mountfort collaborated with Christchurch spinner Audrey King, who experimented with natural dyeing techniques, using bark, leaves and a variety of plant matter.
	www.stuff.co.nz /stuff/gallery/slideshow/3905651a6535.html (1002 words)

	MOUNTFORT, Benjamin Woolfield - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		Mountfort was born in England in 1824, his parents being Thomas Mountfort and Susanna Wale, née Woolfield.
		Mountfort expected to be appointed and when the commission insisted on someone being sent from England, the local newspapers made a stir.
		He was the founder of an architectural tradition, the roots of which run back to the establishment of the settlement of the province of Canterbury.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/M/MountfortBenjaminWoolfield/en (819 words)

	Benjamin Mountfort - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Mountfort nació en Birmingham, una ciudad industrial de las tierras medias de Inglaterra.
		Mountfort era Mason (freemason) y uno de los primeros miembros de la logia de la Unanimidad, y el único edificio que diseñó durante esta época de su vida fue, en 1851, esta logia, la primera logia masónica en South Island.
		Christchurch y sus alrededores son lugares únicos en Nueva Zelanda en lo que se refiere a su arquitectura gótica, algo que se puede atribuir de forma directa a Benjamin Mountfort.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjam%C3%ADn_Mountfort (1248 words)

	B.W. MOUNTFORT AND THE GOTHIC REVIVAL IN CANTERBURY: A CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION - Christchurch City Council Media Release, ...
		Mountfort contributed significantly to the shaping of the architectural character of Christchurch during the nineteenth century designing great structures such as Canterbury Museum, Canterbury College, Provincial Council Chambers, the Great Hall and the Clock tower on Victoria Street, not to mention his contribution to the building of Christchurch Cathedral.
		Mountfort and his wife, Emily, arrived in Canterbury with the first settlers in December, 1850 where he hoped to design churches for the young colony.
		Although Scott held a high opinion of Mountfort, he sent out Robert Speechly who, coincidentally, had trained in the same office as Mountfort in London, although under a different architect.
	archived.ccc.govt.nz /MediaReleases/1998/mountmedia.asp (888 words)

	Suchmaschine
		Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort (13 March 1825-15 March 1898) was an English emigrant to New Zealand, where he became one of that country's most prominent 19th century architects.
		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.
		Completed in 1891, this was one of Mountfort's last major works.
	www.dmoz.ch /lexikon.cgi?sprache=en&q=Benjamin_Mountfort (2695 words)

	Holy Trinity Avonside: Benjamin Mountfort (New Zealander, b.1825, d.1898): From the collection of the Christchurch Art ...
		This was one of the first churches where the architect Benjamin Mountfort was able to design not only the building itself, but also its furnishings.
		The project also offered Mountfort the rare opportunity to complete a church in stone, even though he had worked in Canterbury as an architect for more than twenty years.
		Mountfort’s work was very precise, paying great attention to accuracy and detail.
	www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz /GalleryOnline/RECORDS/R0000912.HTM (180 words)

	A Dream of Spires: Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival - Catalogue - Canterbury University Press - University of ...
		Over nearly fifty years Mountfort played a key role in transforming Christchurch from a village of crude timber buildings on a featureless, windswept plain, into a city of remarkable Gothic Revival buildings which contemporaries recognised as undeniably English in origin but with a character distinctly its own.
		A Dream of Spires examines Mountfort's career from his youth in the heart of industrial Birmingham to his architectural training in London and his emigration to New Zealand in 1850.
		If Lochhead's words draw a powerful picture of Benjamin Mountfort, the illustrations in colour and fl and white are fascinating even for the non-architect.
	www.cup.canterbury.ac.nz /catalogue/dream_of_spires.shtml (411 words)

	A Dream of Spires : Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival by Ian Lochhead, Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort
		A Dream of Spires : Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival by Ian Lochhead, Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort
		Book Details Summary: The title of this book is A Dream of Spires : Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival and it was written by Ian Lochhead, Benjamin Woolfield Mountfort.
		This edition of A Dream of Spires : Benjamin Mountfort and the Gothic Revival is in a Book format.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/090881285X (163 words)

	Register of Historic Places
		The free standing belfry at the church of St Michael and All Angels was designed in 1861 by Benjamin Mountfort (1825-1898), the pre-eminent architect in nineteenth-century Canterbury.
		The roof on the tower is said to be unique in England, although common in the Rhineland, and was pictured in John Henry Parker’s Glossary of Terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture, (3rd edition, 1840).
		The belfry at St. Michael and All Angels is significant as a prominent Christchurch landmark, and as an intriguing design, drawing on numerous historical sources, by the pre-eminent Victorian architect, Mountfort.
	www.historic.org.nz /Register/ListingDetail.asp?RID=295 (495 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The architect Benjamin Mountfort had begun to introduce the Gothic revival style to the colony in the province of Canterbury.
		In January 1862 a competition was held to design First Church — a cathedral-like place of worship to serve as the principal Presbyterian church in the rapidly expanding town of Dunedin in the South Island.
		Following the death of Benjamin Mountfort, who had monopolised the new city's architecture, Lawson was commissioned to design the exhibition halls which led to the important and prestigious commission of designing the Opera House.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Robert_Lawson_(architect) (4434 words)

	New Zealand Christchurch Cathedral
		The Anglican Cathedral of Christchurch was built during the nineteenth century.
		They first planned to construct the cathedral in wood but then found that it could be build be local stone which were of very good quality.
		Benjamin Mountfort is known as the father of Canterbury architecture.
	www.new-zealand-nz.net /christchurch/christchurch_cathedral.html (230 words)

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