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About Knox Church

Knox Church is a remarkable working in Dunedin, New Zealand. It houses the city's second Presbyterian assemblage and is the city's biggest church of any section. Arranged near the college at the northern end of the CBD on George Street it is unmistakable from a great part of the focal city. It was planned by Robert Lawson in the thirteenth century Gothic style and development started in 1872. It is the second working for the gathering.
The principal, finished in 1860, was the second Presbyterian church in the settlement. It was an expansive wooden structure sited in Great King Street, near the University of Otago Faculty of Dentistry building. Despite the fact that this was just at any point planned to be a fleeting home for the Knox assembly the beginning of the Central Otago Gold Rush escalated the requirement for a bigger, perpetual structure.
Church authorities held an opposition which was won by Lawson. His designs, nonetheless, would have surpassed the congregation's £5,000 spending plan and the elders fell back on an outline by David Ross. Since he demanded utilizing an investigator of works who "could be purchased whenever with a pot of beer" Ross' agreement was invalidated inside two months. The congregation specialists moved toward Lawson again and he assumed control over the undertaking.
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