52 Worcester Street
11 council reports since June 2019, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 142 Worcester Street, 103 reports on file.
On the register here
- Registry and Setting, 40 Worcester Street (71m)
- Canterbury Club and Setting, 129 Cambridge Terrace (96m)
- Digby's Commercial School/Worcester Chambers and Setting, 69 Worcester Street (96m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 311 Montreal Street (99m)
- Students' Union and Setting, 39 Hereford Street (119m)
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
- Scott Statue Reserve, 183 m to the edge · Botanic
- Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve, 249 m to the edge · Botanic
- Bridge Of Remembrance, 260 m to the edge · Botanic
- Cranmer Square, 263 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Friendship Corner, 288 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
- Civic Offices, 90 m away · Council office
- Scales, 265 m away · Car park
- Rolleston Avenue, 268 m away · Car park
- Armagh Street, 316 m away · Car park
- Aldersgate, 376 m away · Car park
- Turanga Library, 493 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Moriarty Dental, 10 m away · Business
- The Kitchen Cafe, 34 m away · Cafés
- The Thirsty Peacock, 34 m away · Restaurants
- Fiddlesticks, 35 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hereford St near Montreal St, 104 m away · route 8
- Hereford St near Montreal St, 120 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, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 90 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 156 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 214 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 240 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
- Avon Riverbank Central City plaque, 145 m away ·
(illegible – inscription panel at memorial)
- Avon Riverbank Central City plaque, 156 m away ·
(no text found)
· 2000 - International Federation of University Women 22nd Triennial, 161 m away ·
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN 22ND TRIENNIAL CONFERENCE CHRISTCHURCH 1986 /
· 2000
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 8 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 31 Jan 2026 Black paint tag on a padlocked asset (tramlines?) by 52 Worcester Street on the footpath.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 20 May 2025 Pink and white paint tags on tram cabinet (?) by 52 Worcester Street.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 8 Jan 2025 Graffiti on black cabinet
Graffiti somewhere else, 1 Jan 2025
Graffiti somewhere else, 1 Jan 2025
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 3 Jul 2024 Above Fiddlesticks
- Graffiti, 24 Nov 2023
- Graffiti, 12 Feb 2023
- Water Leak, 9 Nov 2022
Graffiti, 28 May 2021Graffiti, 23 Jun 2019
art gallery wall
Elsewhere on Worcester Street
- 142 Worcester Street, 103 reports
- 3 Worcester Street, 78 reports
- 78 Worcester Street, 69 reports
- 67 Worcester Street, 60 reports
- 138 Worcester Street, 60 reports
- 151 Worcester Street, 50 reports
- 40 Worcester Street, 40 reports
- 154 Worcester Street, 34 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Worcester Street in 64 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 9 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.
Worcester 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
11 council reports on record since June 2019, most often graffiti (4), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (3), graffiti somewhere else (2).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Worcester Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Registry and Setting, Canterbury Club and Setting.
Scott Statue Reserve, 183 m to its edge.