Heritage Place
Upper lighthouse site on Pencarrow Head at the entrance to Wellington Harbour, New Zealand.
Heritage Journey
The first permanent light that became a heritage signal
Stop 1 of 3 on Pencarrow Head.
Upper Pencarrow is the first permanent lighthouse site and the surviving heritage object whose role changed after Baring Head took over the approach light.
Each connection follows reviewed archive relations and evidence. Physical structure, station identity, and navigational function are kept distinct.
Heritage place
Baring Head later succeeded Pencarrow as the main approach light
Heritage asset
The cast-iron tower kit erected at this lighthouse station
Heritage Journey
Read the evidence-grounded journey through this station's rebuilding
Cross-entity routes follow the same governed relations as entity pages, ordered as one readable path.
Chance Heritage Trust records Pencarrow Head Lighthouse in the Chance Brothers lighthouse map import, including a second-order fixed lens, manufacture date 1858, 1859 construction, Lower Pencarrow in 1906, and Baring Head replacement context.
Manatū Taonga records Pencarrow Head as New Zealand’s first permanent lighthouse, first lit on 1 January 1859, and identifies Mary Bennett as first keeper and New Zealand’s only female lighthouse keeper.
Manatū Taonga records the 1858 arrival and hauling of the lighthouse packages, first lighting on 1 January 1859, fog-signal additions, Lower Pencarrow in 1906, Baring Head in 1935, and heritage transfer/restoration context.