The monuments

Every named memorial and artwork the open map records standing on the city’s public ground, 56 memorials and 82 artworks, from the war stones to the earthquake names to the pieces the streets walk past.

Memorials

Artworks

Unnamed beside them

117

What the record says

The oldest dated piece is University of Canterbury Coat of Arms, 1929, one of 10 that carry a year.
11 of the memorials remember the wars, the roll keeps them beside the earthquake’s own names.

Where they stand

OpenStreetMap’s own pins, the war memorials on the reserves and intersections, the artworks through the centre and along the hills. The cemeteries keep their own roll at /cemetery.

The memorials

The artworks

A Day at the Beach mural · 2022 All our Afternoons sculpture · 1990 An Installation installation · 1980 Anzac Fronds installation Back in Time sculpture Bathing Figure artwork Birds Flock Together mural Bridges of Friendship Garden installation Brockworth Street Art Gallery mural Chalice sculpture Chapman's Homer sculpture Community Pride Aotearoa mural Community Spirit mural Corgis on High sculpture Crocodile statue Cumulus Gate Pavilion sculpture Dahlias sculpture Diminish and Ascend sculpture Fairy Tern mural Falling in love artwork Fanfare sculpture Field of Daisies mural Flinders mural Flour Power sculpture Flying Books mural Flying into the Eye of the Storm mural Free Flight sculpture Giraffes statue Huia mural Inner Struggle artwork James Edward Fitzgerald statue Jigsaw Pieces mural John Robert Godley statue Kiwi sculpture Kokourarata Pou pouwhenua Llew Summers 2014 artwork Lorna statue · 1983 Love is Love mural Mary, Blessed Mother statue Moa statue No Place Like Home street art Nucleus sculpture NZ Summer Beach Kit mural Passing Time sculpture · Feb 2011 Penguins statue Pier at Sunset mural Pig statue Pou pouwhenua Pou Pou Monument sculpture Rhinoceros statue Rise From The Rubble mural · 2017 Riverside Mural mural Ron's Shoes sculpture Rose Sculpture artwork Rusty Cabbage Tree artwork Sacred Heart of Jesus statue Seeds of Life mural Sheep statue Sled Dog sculpture Spires sculpture Statue of Charles Meryon sculpture Statue of Robert Falcon Scott statue Stay sculpture Sunflowers and Honeycombs mural Tane sculpture Tawhiri-Matea sculpture Te Hamo o Tū Te Rakiwhānoa pouwhenua Tezuka mural The Arcades The Arcades Project sculpture The Joy of Eternal Spring sculpture Tree Houses for swamp Dwellers sculpture Turkey statue Turtoise sculpture Under the Eaves installation University Map relief University of Canterbury Coat of Arms relief · 1929 Untitled [Test Structure] sculpture · 1970 Vaka 'A Hina sculpture Water Power - Aquafluere fountain · 2006 Wicked Monarch mural William Rolleston statue Woods from the Trees artwork

Questions, answered briefly

How many monuments does Christchurch have?

56 named memorials and 82 named artworks on the open map, plus 117 more the map draws without a name.

What kinds of memorial are here?

War memorials, earthquake memorials, statues, plaques and stones, the map’s own memorial tag, kept as it was mapped.

Where does the monument map come from?

OpenStreetMap, every named node or way tagged historic=memorial or tourism=artwork inside the city boundary (ODbL). A name is the mapper’s; a listing is a lead, not a catalogue record.

Are the cemeteries on this page?

No, they keep their own roll at /cemetery.

The record behind this

Named nodes and ways tagged historic=memorial or tourism=artwork on OpenStreetMap, inside the city boundary (ODbL). A name is the mapper’s; a listing is a lead, not a catalogue record.

This page as markdown: /memorial.md · the whole roll as data: /memorials.geojson · /memorials.json · every pin on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · every roll, counted: /geography.