On St Mary’s Road is a house built around 1850. However the current location was not its original site.
The Auckland Diocese was formed in 1848 . In the 1850s Bishop Pompallier moved his base to Auckland from Northland and in December 1853 purchased the property and house named Clanaboy. He renamed the house St Anne’s. This was Bishop Pompallier’s first residence in Auckland
The following schedule of diocesan land is in Bishop Pompallier’s handwriting and is dated by him on the verso - 19 fev 1868.
You can read about the history of the house in the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Pouhere Taonga Registration Report for a Historic Place - Bishop Pompallier’s House (former), Ponsonby 2011.
Included in this report is a plan showing the original location of the building.
The house was moved for the construction of the current Bishop’s House by Bishop Luck in 1893.
Also part of the collection is this painting of St Anne’s by John Barr Hoyte from the 1860s.
Hoyte painted in New Zealand between 1860 and 1876. You can read more about him here https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/2h52/hoyte-john-barr-clark
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