St Patrick’s Basilica, Oamaru

The St Patrick's Basilica or Oamaru Basilica, as it is popularly known because of its style of architecture, is a Catholic church in , .
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Catholic
  • Description: Oamaru
  • Also known as: Saint Patrick’s Basilica
  • Address: 68 Reed Street, Oamaru, Oamaru, 9400

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Joseph’s School, Oamaru and Waitaki District Council.

School
St Joseph's School is a school in , the largest town in North Otago, in the of . It was established by an order of Catholic nuns — Dominican Sisters — who started teaching in Oamaru in 1882. is situated 130 metres east of St Patrick’s Basilica, Oamaru.

Government office
Photo: Pseudopanax, Public domain.
The building, the former Oamaru Chief Post Office, is the seat of the in , New Zealand. Oamaru's first post office was built in 1864 to a design by William Mason and William Clayton. is situated 1 km south of St Patrick’s Basilica, Oamaru.

Library
is situated 770 metres south of St Patrick’s Basilica, Oamaru.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oamaru and Weston.

is a town in North , , with beautiful Victorian buildings crafted from the fine, white local limestone, and colonies of penguins.

Suburb
is a town situated 5 km inland from , , . It is regarded as one of the more affluent towns of the and had a population of 1,050 in the 2018 census. is situated 4½ km west of St Patrick’s Basilica, Oamaru.

Hamlet
is a settlement to the north of in the North Otago region of New Zealand's . It is located near the coast in the that straddles the border of and Canterbury. is situated 8 km northeast of St Patrick’s Basilica, Oamaru.

St Patrick’s Basilica, Oamaru

Latitude
-45.09268° or 45° 5′ 34″ south
Longitude
170.96964° or 170° 58′ 11″ east
Inception
1873
Open location code
4V6GWX49+WV
Open­Street­Map ID
way 411855975
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­catholic
Wiki­data ID
Q19876542
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “St Patrick’s Basilica, Oamaru”. Photo: Andrew Cooper, CC BY-SA 4.0.