St. Mary's in Holy Trinity
Early Anglican missionary Bishop Selwyn built this Gothic Revival wooden church in 1886. The craftsmanship inside the kauri church is remarkable, down to the hand-finished columns. One of the carpenters left his trademark, an owl, sitting in the beams to the right of the pulpit. If you stand in the pulpit and clasp the lectern, you'll feel something lumpy under your left hand—a mouse, the trademark of another craftsman who made the lectern, the so-called Mouse Man of Kilburn. St. Mary's originally stood on the other side of Parnell Road, and in 1982 the entire structure was moved across the street to be next to the new church, the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.
