Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican church in Port Chalmers, New Zealand. The church building is constructed in volcanic stone and has some fine stained glass, and is listed as a Category I Historic Place. Together with St Barnabas Church, Warrington, Holy Trinity Church is part of the Port Chalmers-Warrington Parish of the Anglican Diocese of Dunedin, New Zealand. History Background In its early years Port Chalmers was predominantly a Scots Presbyterian settlement, which required Anglicans to share places of worship with the Presbyterians. The first Anglican vicar resident in Otago was the Reverend J. A. Fenton, who arrived from England in 1852. With such a widespread geographical area to cover he was limited to holding services at Port Chalmers every six months. By 1870 Congregationalists, Methodists (in 1855) and Presbyterians in Port Chalmers had each built their own churches. By now the Anglicans were holding their services in the Masonic Hall at 29 Wickliffe Terrace and decided that it was time to establish their own place of worship. In August 1870 R. H. Guise, on behalf of the Anglican community advertised in the Otago Daily Times for a suitable site. The project was given further encouragement in 1871 when Samuel Nevill was consecrated as Anglican Bishop of Dunedin which in turn encouraged the development of new parishes and new churches with which to service them. The Port Chalmers Anglican congregation formed a building committee, and the women organized fund raising, which lead to the committee being able to purchase for £150, a suitable commanding half-acre section on the corner of Grey and Scotia streets. After seeking plans and specifications from a number of different architects for a church large enough to seat 300 worshippers, the committee selected the design of R. A. Lawson. Construction Bishop Nevill laid the foundation stone on 7 June 1871, with full Masonic ceremony. The Bishop spoke at the event in front of four to five hundred people, and again in the evening at the Masonic Hall. The laying of the foundation stone was the Bishop's first official action in Dunedin. Soon after, the parish's first vicar, Reverend T. L. Stanley was ordained. "From an early hour bunting was displayed from private houses and others in honour of the occasion. The school children belonging to the Church, with their teachers, assembled at the Masonic Hall, the present place of worship... as also did the Ancient