The vicar of Phillipstown , Rev Hannibal James Congdon Gilbert , teamed up with an accountant ( James Bowlker ) and a storeman ( Lewis Aylwin Carrell ) to purchase the land for the church for £ 380 in September 1881 . They onsold the Church Property Trustees for a nominal ten shillings in March 1883 . The church , constructed in 1885 , was designed in the Gothic Revival style with red brick with contrasting bands of stone , reflecting contemporary English architectural style A similarly detailed but larger church , St Johns Cathedral , was designed by Mountfort and built in Napier between 1886 and 1888 . This was destroyed by the 1931 Hawke 's Bay earthquake and thus left the Church of the Good Shepherd as Mounfort 's only surviving brick church
1931 Hawke 's Bay earthquake
1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake
Church of the Good Shepherd, Christchurch