8 Cranmer Square
10 council reports since February 2016, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 19 Cranmer Square, 23 reports on file.
On the register here
- Cranmer Square and Setting, 1P Cranmer Square (75m) · The exhibition the square didn't get
- Dwelling and Setting, 56 Armagh Street (99m)
- Dwelling and Setting, Red House, 25 Armagh Street (137m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 38 Cranmer Square (152m)
- Dwellings and Setting, Mildenhall, 7/53 Gloucester Street (154m)
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
- Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve, 218 m to the edge · Botanic
- Armagh Reserve, 250 m to the edge
- Hagley Park North, 271 m to the edge · Sports ground · 91 ha
- Victoria Triangles, 292 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, 138 m away · Car park
- Aldersgate, 167 m away · Car park
- Rolleston Avenue, 367 m away · Car park
- Civic Offices, 400 m away · Council office
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- The Grange Boutique Bed & Breakfast, 82 m away · B&Bs
- Dorothy's Pop Up Tearooms, 88 m away · Fast food
- Curtis Vision Optometrists, 89 m away · Business
- The Grange Motel, 95 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Park Tce near Chester St W, 256 m away · route 8
- Rolleston Ave near Gloucester St, 328 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, 63 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 99 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 264 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 266 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 276 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, 85 m away ·
Rugby football was first played in Cranmer Square by the Christchurch Football Club in 186
· 2003
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 5 on record
What’s on record
- Sewer General, 24 Mar 2025
There is a sump on the eastern side of Cranmer square (on the park side) that has had its grating removed. It is a dangerous situation as it
Graffiti somewhere else, 20 Nov 2024 8 Cranmer Square
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 11 Nov 2024 10 Cranmer Sq - brick boundary fence
- Graffiti, 26 Nov 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 21 Jun 2023
- Water Leak, 22 Jan 2023
- Graffiti, 4 Oct 2022
Graffiti, 31 Jan 2021Graffiti, 28 Jul 2019
Graffiti, 10 Feb 2016
Power role
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
10 council reports on record since February 2016, most often graffiti (5), water leak (1), sewer general (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Cranmer Square.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Cranmer Square and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Cranmer Square, 11 m to its edge, 2 ha.


