For many generations, Lamb & Hayward has been caring for the needs of Canterbury families faced with bereavement, providing funeral and associated grief services.
Wai-mana was built in the year 2000 to provide a service for the growing North Canterbury area. Like the other Lamb & Hayward funeral homes it incorporates the most modern design features and has the facilities to offer a choice of different styles of funerals, in keeping with the changes in our lifestyle. The emphasis today is on tailoring a personal funeral service appropriate to the individual.
Designed by David Hill of Wilson and Hill, a young award winning architect who had previously been associated with the building of Lamb & Hayward's Kerrs Road Chapel, the new chapel at Rangiora is a long low-slung building set in five acres of rural zoned land. The intention is to keep it in harmony with the surrounding landscape.
The sloping roof, use of materials such as polished granite and matai veneer throughout the interior, as well as the sweeping floor- to- ceiling windows, which look across the fields to the mountains, all give the building an air of permanence and sereni