chch.live a monument

From the air

aerial view of Spires and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Spires

A sculpture on the city’s public ground: standing in Christchurch Central.

On the map as
sculpture
The suburb
Christchurch Central
Register places near it
8
The maker
Neil Dawson
Made of
aluminium

Where it stands

The pin is OpenStreetMap’s own position, the strong outline is the suburb the map puts it in, the rest are its neighbours.

On the register nearby

Listed places within about 300m: neighbours of the monument, not the monument itself unless the register says so.

The ground under it

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

The reports nearby

3,774 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 3,170 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet Hereford St near Barbadoes St, Christchurch Central City · 6 October 2026
General Request Rauora Park 214 Manchester Street, Christchurch Central City · 5 October 2026
General Request 251 Madras St · 5 October 2026
Hazard, vehicle Latimer Sq · 1 October 2026
Roads - General 136 Worcester St · 30 September 2026
Graffiti on a playground or in a park Canterbury · 25 September 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is Spires?

A sculpture in the open map’s record of Christchurch, standing in Christchurch Central. The map credits Neil Dawson.

Where does Spires stand?

In Christchurch Central, the pin is the map’s own position. The register keeps 8 places within 300m of it.

Is the pin on the map exact?

It’s OpenStreetMap’s position, a surveyed-looking point, but a volunteer map’s one. Nearby ground and register places are neighbours, not the same record.

The record behind this

The position and the tags are OpenStreetMap’s, a named node or way tagged memorial or artwork inside the city boundary (ODbL). The maker, material and date fields are the mapper’s own, kept verbatim; a listing is a lead, not a catalogue record.

This page as markdown: /memorial/spires.md · every monument as data: /memorials.geojson · on the big map: /map?layer=memorials · the quiet ground: the cemeteries · every roll, counted: /geography.