28F Cathedral Square
8 council reports since December 2020, 7 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 (22m)
- Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A W Smith and Son's Central Garage/Mayfair-Cinerama Theatre, 115A Worcester Street (28m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former State Insurance, 58/28 Cathedral Square (75m)
- Former Trinity Congregational Church and Setting, 124 Worcester Street (89m)
- Shands Emporium: Former Commercial Building, 217 Manchester Street (99m)
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, 52 m to the edge · Botanic
- City Mall, 170 m to the edge
- Godley Statue Reserve, 176 m to the edge · Botanic
- The Stewart Plaza, 187 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 214 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, 131 m away · Library
- Triangle, 224 m away · Car park
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 467 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Adina Heritage Christchurch, 21 m away · Hotels
- OGB Bar & Cafe, 21 m away · Bars & pubs
- Heritage Christchurch Hotel, 24 m away · Hotels
- Tūranga Central Library, 26 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Manchester St Super Stop, 106 m away · route 1, route 5, route 7, route 8, route 27, route 29, route 44, route 86, route 91, route 92, route 95
- Manchester St Super Stop, 116 m away · route 1, route 5, route 7, route 8, route 27, route 29, route 44, route 86, 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, 106 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 106 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 245 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 251 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 336 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
- Godley Statue Reserve plaque, 129 m away · 1899
- Godley Statue Reserve plaque, 130 m away · 1899
- Godley Statue Reserve plaque, 132 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 7 on record
What’s on record
- Road Blockage, 9 Aug 2025
Big tree planter boxes outside Cathedral Junction / Fable Hotel in Gloucester Street have been moved into the centre of the road, causing a
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 18 Mar 2025
Pavement - General, 12 Aug 2024 Abandoned bedding and clothing
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 8 Aug 2024
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 30 Jun 2024 white and black graffiti on public bin
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 24 Mar 2024 Black paint tags on reverse side of Taxi Stand sign near 28F Cathedral Square in Worcester Street.
Graffiti, 5 Jun 2022 Silver paint tag ORGANZ on anonymous green asset on Worcester Street a tad east of Cathedral Square.
Graffiti, 20 Dec 2020
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
8 council reports on record since December 2020, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), graffiti (2), road blockage (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Cathedral Square.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former Government Buildings and Setting, Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A W Smith and Son's Central Garage/Mayfair-Cinerama Theatre.
Cathedral Square, 52 m to its edge.






