40 Cranmer Square
11 council reports since October 2020, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 19 Cranmer Square, 23 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 38 Cranmer Square (14m)
- Former Shop/Dwelling and Setting, 40 Cranmer Square (14m)
- Cranmer Square and Setting, 1P Cranmer Square (112m) · The exhibition the square didn't get
- Former St Margaret's School Building and Setting, 25A Cranmer Square (158m)
- Former Christchurch Teachers College and Setting (204m)
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
- Cranmer Square, 11 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Victoria Triangles, 157 m to the edge
- Hagley Park North, 255 m to the edge · Sports ground · 91 ha
- Armagh Reserve, 299 m to the edge
- Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve, 305 m to the edge · Botanic
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Aldersgate, 209 m away · Car park
- Armagh Street, 227 m away · Car park
- Rolleston Avenue, 494 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Delhi Belly Indian Restaurant, 69 m away · Restaurants
- Dorothy's Pop Up Tearooms, 88 m away · Fast food
- Polo Bar & Restaurant, 105 m away · Restaurants
- Hotel Montreal, 110 m away · Hotels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Victoria St near Peterborough St, 181 m away · route 1, route 29, route 95
- Salisbury St near Victoria St, 272 m away · route 1, route 29, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 152 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 220 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 237 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 247 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 259 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
- Rugby Football Was First Played in Cranmer Square, 220 m away ·
Rugby football was first played in Cranmer Square by the Christchurch Football Club in 186
· 2003 - Removed / From Intersection of / High & Manchester Streets, 228 m away ·
REMOVED / FROM INTERSECTION OF / HIGH & MANCHESTER STREETS / AND RE-ERECTED / OCTOBER 1990
· 2009 - Victoria Triangles plaque, 229 m away · 2009
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 somewhere else, 12 Nov 2024
Dumped Rubbish, 12 Aug 2024 Dumbed wood on side of street
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 29 Apr 2024 Multiple paint tags on 3 sides of a concrete lamp pole by 40 Cranmer Square.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 29 Apr 2024 Multiple paint tags on 3 sides of a concrete lamp pole by 20 Cranmer Square.
Water Leak, 28 Jan 2024 Water leak
- Hazard, vehicle, 26 Nov 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 21 Jun 2023
- Graffiti, 29 Jan 2023
- Graffiti, 4 Oct 2022
- Graffiti, 4 Oct 2022
Graffiti - Signage, 8 Oct 2020
Elsewhere on Cranmer Square
- 19 Cranmer Square, 23 reports
- 25 Cranmer Square, 22 reports
- 28 Cranmer Square, 19 reports
- 10 Cranmer Square, 19 reports
- 9 Cranmer Square, 16 reports
- 33A Cranmer Square, 15 reports
- 32 Cranmer Square, 15 reports
- 22 Cranmer Square, 15 reports
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 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.
Cranmer 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
11 council reports on record since October 2020, most often graffiti (3), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (2), water leak (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Cranmer Square.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Former Shop/Dwelling and Setting.
Cranmer Square, 11 m to its edge, 2 ha.





