# Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery, a cemetery of Christchurch

A cemetery of the city, lying in Lyttelton, the ground as the open map draws it.

Denomination: anglican · Dated: 1850

Suburb: [Lyttelton](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton)

From the air, an aerial view of Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=cemetery-lyttelton-anglican-cemetery (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0).

## On the register nearby

- [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/401), 25 Ripon Street
- [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/400), 75 St Davids Street
- [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/372), 59 Oxford Street
- [Former Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/368), 21 Exeter Street
- [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/369), 49 Canterbury Street
- [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/370), 45A Canterbury Street
- [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/365), 53 Oxford Street
- [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/371), 45A Canterbury Street

## The register of plots

The council’s cemetery register files 2,608 plots in this ground, 2,005 marked occupied.
Dates in this range are burial dates where recorded, otherwise dates of death: 1840 to 2026.
931 of the named records sit seventy years back or more, the only ones this site names. Newer burials count; they do not list.

Find a plot by surname on the page: https://www.chch.live/cemetery/lyttelton-anglican-cemetery

## The ground under it

- [Under the hill country’s watch band](https://www.chch.live/slope), the plan’s broad instability overlay
- [On scheduled Ngāi Tahu ground](https://www.chch.live/cultural), Ōhinehou
- [The plan zones this ground Specific Purpose (Cemetery)](https://www.chch.live/zones), SPC
- [The rockfall survey counts 27 boulders within 500 m](https://www.chch.live/boulders), 26 came down
- [The nearest recorded shake: M3.5](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 14 June 2011 · ~150 m from the pin · 406 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.598634&lon=172.723102&radius=250

## Around it

- [Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/facility/cemetery-73), the council’s own record of this ground, its point sits 69 m away
- [Urumau Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1416-urumau-reserve), regional park · ~350 m
- [Oxford Street Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1159-oxford-street-reserve), botanic park · ~350 m
- [Walk and bike track through Lyttelton](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-168-lyttelton), track · ~750 m
- [Walk and bike track through Sumner](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-187-sumner), track · 1.4 km
- [Lyttelton Catholic and Public Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/lyttelton-catholic-and-public-cemetery), cemetery · ~450 m
- [Diamond Harbour Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/diamond-harbour-cemetery), cemetery · 3.2 km
- [Rapaki Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/rapaki-cemetery), cemetery · 3.3 km
- [Rapaki Church Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/rapaki-church-cemetery), cemetery · 3.4 km


## The reports nearby
329 reports pinned within 250 m of the point, a pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place.
- [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/9078659), [71 Canterbury Street, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/71-canterbury-street)
- [Overgrown Vegetation](https://www.chch.live/report/9043666), [87 Oxford St, Canterbury, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/87-oxford-street)
- [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/report/9040079), [11 Ripon Street, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/11-ripon-street)
- [Overgrown Vegetation](https://www.chch.live/report/8950171), [17 Days Rd, Canterbury, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/17-days-road)
- [Trees - General](https://www.chch.live/report/8878280), [18 Exeter Street, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/18-exeter-street)
- [Pavement - Damaged](https://www.chch.live/report/8823184), [57 Canterbury St, Canterbury, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/57-canterbury-street)
- [Damaged Road](https://www.chch.live/report/8818180), [49 Canterbury St, Canterbury, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/49-canterbury-street)
- [General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/8765729), [6 Days Rd, Canterbury, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/6-days-road)
- [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/8605451), [57 Canterbury St, Canterbury, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/57-canterbury-street)
- [Sediment - Construction](https://www.chch.live/report/8530806), [25 Days Road, Banks Peninsula, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/25-days-road)
- [General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/8519396), [6 Days Rd, Canterbury, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/6-days-road)
- [Pavement - Damaged](https://www.chch.live/report/8479493), [73 Canterbury Street, Lyttelton 8082, New Zealand](https://www.chch.live/lyttelton/73-canterbury-street)

## Questions, answered briefly

**Where is Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery?**

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, the map draws its grounds as an outline, inside the city boundary.

**What kind of cemetery is Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery?**

The map tags it anglican, a mapper’s tag, not the council’s register.

**What’s on the register near Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery?**

8 listed places within 300m, each opens its own record from this page.

**Does this page list who is buried there?**

Partly, the council’s register files 2,608 plots in this ground, and burials seventy years gone or older can be found by surname on this page. Newer burials are counted but never named here; the council’s own cemetery search holds the whole register.


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The ground is OpenStreetMap’s, a named node, way or relation tagged landuse=cemetery inside the city boundary (ODbL). The ground is the map’s; the graves are the council’s, the register of plots is their Green Assets layer (gmCemeteryPlot), names included only where the death is seventy years gone or more.
The page: https://www.chch.live/cemetery/lyttelton-anglican-cemetery
The monuments beside them: https://www.chch.live/memorial
