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On the register here

• Dwelling and Setting, 56 Armagh Street (52m)
• Dwellings and Setting, Mildenhall, 7/53 Gloucester Street (100m)
• Cranmer Square and Setting, 1P Cranmer Square (152m) · The exhibition the square didn't get
• Former CSA / CoCA Gallery and Setting, 66 Gloucester Street (158m)
• Dwelling and Setting, Red House, 25 Armagh Street (178m)

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, 53 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
• Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve, 157 m to the edge · Botanic
• Victoria Square, 249 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
• Scott Statue Reserve, 290 m to the edge · Botanic
• Armagh Reserve, 296 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

• Armagh Street, 91 m away · Car park
• Aldersgate, 142 m away · Car park
• Civic Offices, 339 m away · Council office
• Rolleston Avenue, 368 m away · Car park
• Turanga Library, 463 m away · Library

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

On the doorstep

• West Fitzroy Apartments, 22 m away · Motels
• The Grange Motel, 28 m away · Motels
• Curtis Vision Optometrists, 29 m away · Business
• The Grange Boutique Bed & Breakfast, 42 m away · B&Bs

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Park Tce near Chester St W, 316 m away · route 8
• Rolleston Ave near Gloucester St, 354 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, 4 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 123 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, 247 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 252 m to the line · walk · bike

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

The remembered names nearby

• Rugby Football Was First Played in Cranmer Square, 117 m away · Rugby football was first played in Cranmer Square by the Christchurch Football Club in 186 · 2003
• Provincial Council Building 1865 — Canterbury Centenary, 182 m away · PROVINCIAL COUNCIL BUILDING 1865 — Canterbury Centenary plaque · 2009
• … Golden Jubilee / 1962, 202 m away · … GOLDEN JUBILEE / 1962 · 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

• Roading/Streets, 1
• Graffiti, 1

Photographed here 2 on record

more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

What’s on record

• Graffiti, 11 Feb 2021 White paint tag on green concrete Orion utility cabinet by corner of Armagh Street and Cranmer Square
• Roading/Streets, 17 Jan 2019 Nasty lump of concrete on cycleway, dropped by tradesman no doubt. Needs removing please

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.