NEW ZEALAND
SYDNEY STREET [WELLINGTON] PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH
BAPTISMS - 1847 - 1895

Thanks to John Wilson for this. Of the 845 baptisms 74 of them appear not to have the birth registered. Others are registered as Not Recorded so now have a name. Notations in [] have been added from Birth Registration records on https://bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz/

THE CYCLOPEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND [WELLINGTON PROVINCIAL DISTRICT]
THE SYDNEY STREET PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH
The Sydney Street Primitive Methodist Church was founded as long ago as 1847, when the Rev, Robert Ward, the pioneer Primitive Methodist minister in the Colony, came down from New Plymouth to prepare the way for the first resident minister, the Rev. Henry Green. The original building was a sod church, which was shaken down by the earthquake of 1848. A weatherboard structure then erected did duty till 1858, when a more pretentious edifice was built. This was pulled down and replaced by the present church in 1869. Since this date a large schoolroom has been erected. The church is seated to hold about 400 people, the accommodation afforded by the school being from 200 to 300. The Primitive Methodists have a neat church in Webb Street, built in 1868, seating 300; they have also a small school adjoining the church. In 1888 a church was built at Newtown, holding 150, with a good schoolroom behind having room for 100 children. They have also churches at Tawa Flat and Porirua, with sitting accommodation for 100 and 150 respectively, which were built in 1881 and 1888.

In 1851 Wellington's ‘town cemetery’ was split into three sectarian areas known as Bolton Street Cemetery (for Church of England burials), Sydney Street Cemetery (the public one for “non-conformists”) and the Jewish Cemetery.
The Primitive Methodist Chapel was noted in 1878/9 as being on the right hand side of Sydney Street from Mulgrave Street just before the Molesworth Street intersection. [Wises Directory] The church property is now part of the Kate Sheppard Apartment block.
In 1907 a fire destroyed most of parliament's buildings, except the library. The building of the new parliament began in 1910 and it split Sydney St in half. The streets became known as Sydney St East and Sydney St West. Sydney Street East is now known as Kate Sheppard Place, Wellington.
In 1913 the Primitive Methodists joined the United Methodist Free Church, the Bible Christian Church and the Wesleyan Methodist Church to become the Methodist Church of New Zealand.