776 Colombo Street
8 council reports since July 2016, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 794 Colombo Street, 159 reports on file.
On the register here
- K2 Telephone Box and Setting (13m)
- Bowker Fountain and Setting (40m)
- Queen Victoria Statue/Canterbury Jubilee Memorial and Setting (48m) · The Queen on the square
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former Cook and Ross, 201/779 Colombo Street (81m)
- Captain James Cook Statue and Setting, 89 Armagh Street (86m)
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
- Victoria Square, 55 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Edmonds Band Rotunda, 129 m to the edge · Botanic
- Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve, 175 m to the edge · Botanic
- Cathedral Square, 257 m to the edge · Botanic
- Godley Statue Reserve, 293 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
- Turanga Library, 222 m away · Library
- Aldersgate, 275 m away · Car park
- Armagh Street, 305 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Waka on Avon, 55 m away · Attractions
- The Victoria, 78 m away · Bars & pubs
- Ko Tāne, 78 m away · Attractions
- Cafe 1851, 79 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Kilmore St near Manchester St, 207 m away · route 1, route 27, route 29, route 95
- Kilmore Street Town Hall, 210 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, 66 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 144 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 243 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 273 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 283 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
- The Market Hall Stood on This Site From 1852 to 1870, 14 m away ·
THE MARKET HALL STOOD ON THIS SITE FROM 1852 TO 1870 ... (partial text)
· 2009 - The Market Hall Stood on / This Site From 1862 to 1874, 15 m away ·
THE MARKET HALL STOOD ON / THIS SITE FROM 1862 TO 1874 / IN THE LATTER YEARS OF THAT PERIO
· 2018 - Bowker Fountain / Unveiled 26 February 1931, 32 m away ·
BOWKER FOUNTAIN / UNVEILED 26 FEBRUARY 1931 / REPAIRED AND RECONSTRUCTED / AFTER THE 2011
· 2018
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 traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 16 Mar 2026 Black paint tag (plus sticky tags galore) on steel lamp pole by 776 Colombo Street.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 26 Nov 2025 Graffiti on a parking meter
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 21 Aug 2025 Council planter with graffiti
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 10 May 2024 STOR white paint tag on steel lamp pole by 776 Colombo Street.
Graffiti somewhere else, 30 Apr 2024
Graffiti, 7 Jul 2022Parks, 15 Mar 2019
Victoria square. Many damaged blocks throughout the square. Looks like vandals are trying to remove brass inserts.
Roading/Streets, 12 Jul 2016
Please replace missing pay and display signage by pay and display machine number 3611. Currently un- inforcable.
Elsewhere on Colombo Street
- 794 Colombo Street, 159 reports
- 673 Colombo Street, 102 reports
- 781 Colombo Street, 55 reports
- 521 Colombo Street, 46 reports
- 722 Colombo Street, 45 reports
- 569 Colombo Street, 45 reports
- 527 Colombo Street, 41 reports
- 711 Colombo Street, 38 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Colombo Street in 177 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 32 seriously hurt.
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.
Colombo 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
8 council reports on record since July 2016, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), roading/streets (1), parks (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, K2 Telephone Box and Setting, Bowker Fountain and Setting.
Victoria Square, 55 m to its edge, 2 ha.