242 Manchester Street
4 council reports since November 2022, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 297-299 Manchester Street, 103 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Church of St Luke the Evangelist Bell Tower and Setting, 258 Manchester Street (102m)
- Edmonds Band Rotunda Area including Rotunda, Shelter, Balustrades, Landing and Lamp Standards and Setting, 230 Cambridge Terrace (114m)
- Former Vicarage of the Church of St Luke the Evangelist and Setting, 185 Kilmore Street (118m)
- Poplars, Lamp Standards and Setting (124m)
- Edmonds Clock Tower, Telephone Cabinet and Setting, 295F Madras Street (215m)
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
- Edmonds Band Rotunda, 76 m to the edge · Botanic
- Poplars Reserve, 168 m to the edge · Botanic
- Cambridge Reserve, 169 m to the edge
- Fire Fighters Reserve, 247 m to the edge
- Victoria Square, 261 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
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, 394 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Forte 2, 133 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Saunders Robinson Brown, 155 m away · Lawyers
- Southern Eye Speicalists, 158 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Mocoffee Cube / Cart, 165 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Manchester St near Kilmore St, 64 m away · route 44, route 91, route 92
- Manchester St near Kilmore St, 97 m away · route 1, route 27, route 29, route 44, route 91, route 92, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 7 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 118 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 186 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 236 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 243 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
- This Rotunda Shelter and Circular Seat Were Presented, 108 m away ·
THIS ROTUNDA SHELTER AND CIRCULAR SEAT WERE PRESENTED BY T.J. EDMONDS TO CELEBRATE FIFTY Y
· 2009 - Poplar Crescent 1929, 122 m away ·
POPLAR CRESCENT 1929
· 2009 - Margaret Mahy Family Playground, 161 m away ·
MARGARET MAHY FAMILY PLAYGROUND / Officially opened on 22 December 2015 by / Elsie Mahy /
· 2017
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 2 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 7 Feb 2026 Green cabinet on street
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 26 Sept 2025 Graffiti on wall
- Dumped Rubbish, 3 Jul 2023
- Graffiti, 30 Nov 2022
Elsewhere on Manchester Street
- 297-299 Manchester Street, 103 reports
- 293 Manchester Street, 72 reports
- 214 Manchester Street, 72 reports
- 153 Manchester Street, 52 reports
- 218 Manchester Street, 48 reports
- 76 Manchester Street, 45 reports
- 204 Manchester Street, 45 reports
- 192 Manchester Street, 40 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Manchester Street in 235 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 38 seriously hurt.
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.
Manchester Street, 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
4 council reports on record since November 2022, most often graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1), graffiti (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Manchester Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former Church of St Luke the Evangelist Bell Tower and Setting, Edmonds Band Rotunda Area including Rotunda, Shelter, Balustrades, Landing and Lamp Standards and Setting.
Edmonds Band Rotunda, 76 m to its edge.