Fifty-four openings in a church wallSourced
A church built in 1861
still has 54 rifle loopholes.
St Bride's Church in Mauku, New Zealand, was enclosed by a stockade and used as a military outpost during the 1863 invasion of Waikato. Fifty-four loopholes cut into its walls at the time remain today. No battle took place at the church itself.
A place of worship
still bears the marks of war.
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