# 18 Cranmer Square, Christchurch Central City

15 reports on record since August 2016 · 13 with photographs.

https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/18-cranmer-square

## What gets reported here
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti) — 5
- [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti) — 2
- [Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti) — 2
- [Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti) — 2
- [Pavement - Damaged](https://www.chch.live/problems/footpaths) — 1
- [Parks](https://www.chch.live/problems/parks-maintenance) — 1

## Reported here
- [Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa](https://www.chch.live/report/7148110) — 3 Nov 2025
- [Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa](https://www.chch.live/report/5922419) — 23 Feb 2025
- [Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art](https://www.chch.live/report/5682769) — 12 Jan 2025
- [Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art](https://www.chch.live/report/5650968) — 6 Jan 2025
- [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/5177271) — 23 Sept 2024
- [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/5013104) — 16 Aug 2024
- [Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset](https://www.chch.live/report/4973113) — 6 Aug 2024
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/4601103) — 29 Apr 2024
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/4152311) — 16 Jan 2024
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/4152305) — 16 Jan 2024

## Photographed here (13 on record)
- [Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa](https://www.chch.live/report/7148110) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/07148110/public/1_6h0b016wpgev.jpg
- [Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa](https://www.chch.live/report/5922419) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05922419/public/1_8muz146nr96f.jpg
- [Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art](https://www.chch.live/report/5682769) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05682769/public/1_2ekwy3jlcrv5.jpg
- [Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art](https://www.chch.live/report/5650968) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05650968/public/1_5ppojlhuhxh9.jpg
- [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/5177271) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05177271/public/1_an61pli5ytp8.jpg
- [Graffiti somewhere else](https://www.chch.live/report/5013104) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05013104/public/1_d2ydrp4by1v.jpg
- [Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset](https://www.chch.live/report/4973113) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04973113/public/1_pijmsv0eyupd.jpg
- [Graffiti on a fence, building or structure](https://www.chch.live/report/4601103) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04601103/public/1_dwe3b2uvlflm.jpg
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/4152311) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04152311/public/1_ggugrfh07fwb.jpg
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/4152305) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04152305/public/1_0a9zvd24mjaj.jpg
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/4152297) — https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04152297/public/1_7j9lcz2u2elt.jpg
- [Parks](https://www.chch.live/report/2165733) — https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/02165733/1_Rcmgtj.jpg

[More photographs on the Christchurch Central City wall](https://www.chch.live/wall?suburb=christchurch-central-city)

## Also reported on Cranmer Square
- [19 Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/19-cranmer-square) — 23 reports
- [25 Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/25-cranmer-square) — 22 reports
- [28 Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/28-cranmer-square) — 19 reports
- [10 Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/10-cranmer-square) — 19 reports
- [9 Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/9-cranmer-square) — 16 reports
- [33A Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/33a-cranmer-square) — 15 reports
- [32 Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/32-cranmer-square) — 15 reports
- [22 Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city/22-cranmer-square) — 15 reports
- [Cranmer Square, the whole record](https://www.chch.live/street/christchurch-central-city/cranmer-square)

## On the doorstep
- [Dorothy's Pop Up Tearooms](https://www.chch.live/business/dorothy-s-pop-up-tearooms-christchurch-central-city) — 56 m away · Fast food
- [The Grange Boutique Bed & Breakfast](https://www.chch.live/business/the-grange-boutique-bed-breakfast-christchurch-central-city) — 126 m away · B&Bs
- [Curtis Vision Optometrists](https://www.chch.live/business/curtis-vision-optometrists-christchurch-central-city) — 131 m away · Business
- [West Fitzroy Apartments](https://www.chch.live/business/west-fitzroy-apartments-christchurch-central-city) — 134 m away · Motels

*Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.*

## The bus nearby
- Park Tce near Chester St W — 263 m away · [route 8](https://www.chch.live/buses/8)
- Victoria St near Peterborough St — 292 m away · [route 1](https://www.chch.live/buses/1), [route 29](https://www.chch.live/buses/29), [route 95](https://www.chch.live/buses/95)

*The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.*

## The remembered names nearby
- [Rugby Football Was First Played in Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/plaque/61081-cranmer-square) — 122 m away — “Rugby football was first played in Cranmer Square by the Christchurch Football Club in 186…” · 2003

*The plaque pins come from the register — a recorded spot, not a surveyed one. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques).*

## The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Cranmer Square in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006 — 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

[The crashes it names, each one →](https://www.chch.live/crashes?road=cranmer-square&suburb=christchurch-central-city)

## 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 →](https://www.chch.live/christchurch-central-city#s-living).

## The civic layer

This ground votes in [Central ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/central) — the [Papanui-Innes-Central community board](https://www.chch.live/boards/papanui-innes-central) 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](https://www.chch.live/wards).

## What was here — Cranmer Square and Setting
*on this spot · 1P Cranmer Square · located to ±119 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/50)*
- In the winter of 1869 the City Council fenced Cranmer Square — the works committee had fencing plans prepared in July, and the fortnightly works return at the end of August records men "erecting posts for fencing Cranmer Square". — CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 27 July 1869) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18690727.2.6), 1869-07-27T00:00:00.000Z
- In January 1882 the promoters Joubert and Twopeny asked the City Council for the use of Cranmer Square to erect buildings for an international exhibition they planned to open that April. — THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. (Star, 14 January 1882) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18820114.2.21), 1882-01-14T00:00:00.000Z
- At an informal council meeting on 13 January 1882, Twopeny said the promoters would sign a bond to give the square back "in exactly the same condition as it was before" and would not injure any of its trees; he asked for Cranmer rather than Latimer Square because money had just been spent laying Latimer out. — THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. (Star, 14 January 1882) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS18820114.2.21), 1882-01-14T00:00:00.000Z
- The exhibition never came to Cranmer Square. When it opened in April 1882 its buildings stood in Hagley Park, on the angle formed by the junction of the Riccarton and Lincoln roads. — THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AT CHRISTCHURCH. (Timaru Herald, 12 April 1882) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/THD18820412.2.15), 1882-04-12T00:00:00.000Z
- By the early 1900s the houses around Cranmer Square ran heavily as lodging and boarding houses — the Star's columns carry years of boarders wanted, rooms to let and servants sought addressed to numbers 2, 3, 10, 20, 22 and 30. — Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 14 January 1905) (https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19050114.2.62.1), 1905-01-14T00:00:00.000Z
- Written: [The exhibition the square didn't get](https://www.chch.live/article/the-exhibition-the-square-didnt-get)

## What was here — Dwelling and Setting
*107 m away · 38 Cranmer Square · located to ±5 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/52)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

## What was here — Former Shop/Dwelling and Setting
*121 m away · 40 Cranmer Square · located to ±6 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/53)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

## What was here — Dwelling and Setting
*143 m away · 56 Armagh Street · located to ±14 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/7)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
- Heritage New Zealand list entry: https://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/3116

## What was here — Former St Margaret's School Building and Setting
*145 m away · 25A Cranmer Square · located to ±24 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/51)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
- Heritage New Zealand list entry: https://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/3105

## The green nearby
- [Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/park/1817-cranmer-square) — 16 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- [Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1068-canterbury-provincial-council-reserve) — 231 m to the edge · Botanic
- [Victoria Triangles](https://www.chch.live/park/1836-victoria-triangles) — 249 m to the edge
- [Armagh Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1254-armagh-reserve) — 261 m to the edge
- [Hagley Park North](https://www.chch.live/park/1572-hagley-park-north) — 268 m to the edge · Sports ground · 91 ha

*Within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.*

## The civic shelf nearby
- [Armagh St](https://www.chch.live/facility/car-park-34) — 148 m away · Car park
- [Aldersgate](https://www.chch.live/facility/car-park-32) — 160 m away · Car park
- [Rolleston Avenue](https://www.chch.live/facility/car-park-29) — 405 m away · Car park
- [Civic Offices](https://www.chch.live/facility/council-office-8) — 444 m away · Council office

## The tracks through here
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-491-christchurch-central-city) — 108 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-482-christchurch-central-city) — 138 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-487-christchurch-central-city) — 229 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-472-christchurch-central-city) — 263 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-473-christchurch-central-city) — 275 m to the line · walk · bike

*Lines passing within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.*

## Questions, answered briefly

**What has been reported at 18 Cranmer Square?**

15 council reports on record since August 2016 — most often graffiti (5), graffiti somewhere else (2), graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (2).

**Which suburb is 18 Cranmer Square in?**

Christchurch Central City, Christchurch — on [Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/street/christchurch-central-city/cranmer-square).

**What stood at 18 Cranmer Square before?**

The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it — [Cranmer Square and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/50), [Dwelling and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/52).

**What is the nearest park to 18 Cranmer Square?**

[Cranmer Square](https://www.chch.live/park/1817-cranmer-square) — 16 m to its edge, 2 ha.

Data: https://api.chch.live/address?suburb=christchurch-central-city&address=18-cranmer-square · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Christchurch%20Central%20City&street=cranmer-square