28 Cathedral Square

On the register here

• Former Government Buildings and Setting, 26/28 Cathedral Square (48m)
• Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A W Smith and Son's Central Garage/Mayfair-Cinerama Theatre, 115A Worcester Street (67m)
• ChristChurch Cathedral and Setting, 100 Cathedral Square (68m)
• Cathedral Square and Setting (102m)
• Commercial Building and Setting, Former State Insurance, 58/28 Cathedral Square (106m)

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, 18 m to the edge · Botanic
• City Mall, 138 m to the edge
• Godley Statue Reserve, 140 m to the edge · Botanic
• The Stewart Plaza, 154 m to the edge
• High Street Triangles, 193 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, 120 m away · Library
• Triangle, 198 m away · Car park
• Re:start - Lichfield Street, 442 m away · Car park
• Armagh Street, 499 m away · Car park

Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

On the doorstep

• The Parlour, 16 m away · Bars & pubs
• O.G.B Bar & Cafe, 17 m away · Bars & pubs
• OGB Bar & Cafe, 22 m away · Bars & pubs
• gumP-tion Restaurant & Bar, 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, 101 m away · route 8
• Hereford St near Colombo St, 110 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, 142 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 143 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 215 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 258 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 313 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• Godley Statue Reserve plaque, 116 m away · 1899
• Godley Statue Reserve plaque, 116 m away · 1899
• Godley Statue Reserve plaque, 117 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

• Roading/Streets, 3
• Graffiti, 2
• Rubbish/Recycling, 1
• General Request, 1

Photographed here 6 on record

more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

What’s on record

• General Request, 30 Jan 2026 I took my grandchildren to sed the buskers today. we went into cathedral square and the children needed to go to the bathroom. we went acros
• Roading/Streets, 25 Jun 2020 safety issue with loose and uneven cobbles.
• Graffiti, 19 Feb 2020 Cathedral Square Gateway, Christchurch city centre CBD. Next to 14 Distinction Hotel.
• Roading/Streets, 29 Aug 2019 Whilst it is appreciated that the Square is going to have work done to it, is it not possible to provide some temporary bike parking than pe
• Graffiti, 6 May 2019
• Roading/Streets, 10 Apr 2019 Uneven paving and broken paver outside heritage hotel
• Rubbish/Recycling, 29 Jul 2017 Rubbish bin needs to be emptied. Outside Heritage Hotel.

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 crashes it names, each one →

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.