12E Cathedral Square
6 council reports since May 2024, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 105 Cathedral Square, 173 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Government Buildings and Setting, 26/28 Cathedral Square (64m)
- ChristChurch Cathedral and Setting, 100 Cathedral Square (82m)
- Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A W Smith and Son's Central Garage/Mayfair-Cinerama Theatre, 115A Worcester Street (94m)
- Cathedral Square and Setting (107m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former State Insurance, 58/28 Cathedral Square (114m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- Cathedral Square, 38 m to the edge · Botanic
- City Mall, 104 m to the edge
- The Stewart Plaza, 120 m to the edge
- Godley Statue Reserve, 138 m to the edge · Botanic
- High Street Triangles, 156 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Turanga Library, 150 m away · Library
- Triangle, 161 m away · Car park
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 405 m away · Car park
- Civic Offices, 492 m away · Council office
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Distinction Hotel Christchurch, 13 m away · Hotels
- Old Government Building Suites, 16 m away · Hotels
- gumP-tion Restaurant & Bar, 21 m away · Restaurants
- Gumption, 27 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hereford St near Colombo St, 65 m away · route 8
- Hereford St near Colombo St, 73 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 150 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 159 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 212 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 295 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 315 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Citizens’ War Memorial / Originally Dedicated on 9 June 1937, 144 m away ·
Citizens’ War Memorial / Originally dedicated on 9 June 1937 / Damaged by the Canterbury E
· 2023 - Godley Statue Reserve plaque, 144 m away · 1899
- Godley Statue Reserve plaque, 145 m away · 1899
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Christchurch Central City ran about $508 a week, $42 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 5 Jan 2026 Tags on mural
Damaged Road, 22 Apr 2025 The grate in the road between the tracks has dropped down about 5cm. Hazard to cyclists
Water Leak, 28 Feb 2025 Water leaking under the road on the south side of the Cathedral, appears to be surfacing around the pictured yellow triangle.
Graffiti somewhere else, 27 Aug 2024 On the boarding around a construction site
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 30 Jun 2024 multi coloured graffiti on wall
Vandalism - General, 26 May 2024
Elsewhere on Cathedral Square
- 105 Cathedral Square, 173 reports
- 53 Cathedral Square, 108 reports
- 100 Cathedral Square, 95 reports
- 9 Cathedral Square, 91 reports
- 31 Cathedral Square, 82 reports
- 99 Cathedral Square, 81 reports
- 2 Cathedral Square, 79 reports
- 50 Cathedral Square, 54 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Cathedral Square in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Cathedral Square, the whole record → · Everything about Christchurch Central City → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
6 council reports on record since May 2024, most often water leak (1), vandalism - general (1), graffiti somewhere else (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Cathedral Square.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former Government Buildings and Setting, ChristChurch Cathedral and Setting.
Cathedral Square, 38 m to its edge.