Contact the Futuna Chapel Trust:
For further information, please contact the Trust – futunachapel@gmail.com
Visit the Chapel:
Futuna Chapel: 67 Futuna Close, Karori, Wellington 6012
The Chapel is generally open to visitors on the first Sunday of every month between 11am and 3pm.
Entry for Open Days is free, but koha/ donation is appreciated.
As well as our regular Open Sundays, we have a series of exciting events year round.
Wheelchair access is available. Parking is available on Friend Street, or take a Number 2 bus to Karori from the city.
Use the Chapel:
We love holding events in the Chapel. If you are interested in using Futuna Chapel for your event – please see here for more information and a booking form.
Nikau Foundation – Futuna Chapel Fund:
With the Chapel now alive with activity, the Futuna Chapel Trust has begun to think about the next chapter of Futuna. The trustees want to make sure that they could maximise their fundraising efforts, build a long-term source of funding and create a sustainable future for the Chapel. As a result, the Futuna Chapel Fund was established with Nikau Foundation in early 2023. To find out more about the Futuna Chapel Fund, and Nikau Foundation, please see here.
Koha / Donations:
Please use your name as the reference.
Charitable Trust Registered Number 1298845
Purchase items to help fund the chapel:
If you wish to purchase anything below, please email futunachapel@gmail.com
Book: Futuna: Life of a Building, by Nick Bevin and Gregory O’Brien
Either purchase for $20 cash at the Chapel or $25 plus post and packaging from this website. Please email futunachapel@gmail.com to purchase. An extract from a review by architect Claire Chambers:
“Read the story of Futuna to smile and weep, linger over the poems by Gregory O’Brien and Hone Tuwhare, study the original drawings and sketches by John Scott and Malcolm Walker’s cartoon. Then keep this book close to absorb the wonder of the photographs showing the coloured light moving over the interior walls, a miracle that even astonished Jim Allen and John Scott when they first saw it. As Jim Allen said at the book launch at the Auckland Art Gallery on 28 August, when describing the light on the Christ figure: ‘The light started on the nose, then moved to the finger tips, then across the wall’. This book reads almost like a love letter to a building – and to the creation of tranquillity, beauty, colour and light in space.”
Claire Chambers, Block: The Broadsheet of the Auckland Branch of the NZ Institute of Architects, August 2016
Greeting Cards:
The Trust has also produced two series of blank greeting cards, Heritage and Contemporary, each with 4 individual images of the Chapel in each set. The cards are sold in sets. See the images and prices inclusive of GST below.
Post and packaging within New Zealand is $2.50 for two sets of cards.
Model:
A 50th Anniversary Limited Edition Scale Model (1:100) of the chapel was produced by students from the Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture. Limited to 50 numbered models. The models are supplied with a matching custom fitted storage box that doubles as a display plinth and contains an engraved token denoting the Limited Edition Number. Price: $300 incl GST + post and packaging (free delivery in Wellington CPD)
The model is also available in a Standard Limited Edition of 25 un-numbered copies supplied as a DIY flat pack comprising 48 parts and without the storage/display box. Price: $250 incl GST + post and packaging (free delivery in Wellington CPD)
The kit was designed by Hamilton modeller Tony Richardson using Inkscape vector graphics, then laser cut by Ponoko in Wellington from 4mm Italian poplar plywood donated by Plytech. We acknowledge the support of Tony Richardson, the Scott family, Jim Allen, Plytech, Ponoko, The Tool Shed, Dr Robin Skinner and the VUW School of Architecture students in making this project possible.
Futuna Print:
In 2011 Gregory O’Brien presented the Trust with 20 copies of his etching titled ‘Lines on the fiftieth anniversary of Futuna Chapel, 19 March 2011’.
This etching was inspired by Futuna Chapel where, at the 50th anniversary, Gregory spoke and read, for the first time, his recently composed poem, Ode to Futuna. Gregory has generously given the Trust these etchings to raise funds for the ongoing restoration of the Chapel. They are available from the Trust unframed for $600 incl. GST.
Supporters:
The purchase of the Chapel and the ongoing work of the Trust has had the support of many organisations, corporates, groups, societies, charitable trusts, architects and individuals. We would like to acknowledge these contributions and thank those who have given, and continue to give, financial support to the work of the Trust.
Without the help and support of these organisations the restoration of the life, spirit and structure of Futuna Chapel would not be possible
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Architecture Firms
Architectural firms have supported the chapel by ‘purchasing’ pews. These are our generous supporters:
PLATINUM
JOHN BLAIR – www.pmarchitects.co.nz/people/john_b.html
ARCHITECTUS – www.architectus.co.nz
JASMAX – www.jasmax.com
TENNENT BROWN ARCHITECTS – www.tennentbrown.co.nz
NOVAK+MIDDLETON ARCHITECTS – www.novakmiddleton.co.nz
GOLD
PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTS – www.pacificenvironments.co.nz
BLOCK FOUNDATION – www.cheshirearchitects.com
MITCHELLSTOUT ARCHITECTS-www.mitchellstoutarchitects.co.nz
CROSSON CLARKE CARNACHAN – www.ccca.co.nz
HAVANA CLUB (Ken Bryant, Tony Burge, Terry Dykes, Geoff Fletcher, Angela Foster, Morten Gjerde, Steve Grant, Bruce Johnson, David McGill, Michael Melville, Alan Minty, Peter Mitchell, Roger Walker)
SILVER
STEVENS LAWSON ARCHITECTS – www.stevenslawson.co.nz
SHACKLOCK ARCHITECTS – email: wendy@wendyshacklock.co.nz
BOSSLEY ARCHITECTS – www.bossleyarchitects.co.nz
SALMOND REED – www.salmondreed.co.nz
BEVIN + SLESSOR ARCHITECTS – www.bevinslessor.co.nz
MACKENZIE HIGHAM – www.mckenziehigham.co.nz
DESIGN GROUP STAPLETON ELLIOT – www.designgroupstapletonelliott.co.nz
BRONZE
RICK PEARSON – www.pearsonarchitects.co.nz
MATTHEWS AND MATTHEWS
SHEPPARD & ROUT ARCHITECTS LTD – www.sheprout.com
DALMAN ARCHITECTURE LIMITED – www.dalman.co.nz
CHRIS MOLLER – cma-u.com/content/chris-moller
ALEC BRUCE