Canterbury Club and Setting

129 Cambridge Terrace · Central City

The encyclopaedia on it

The Canterbury Club is a historic gentlemen's club in the central city of Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded by urban professionals in 1872 as a breakaway club from the Christchurch Club, which had been set up by large rural landholders in 1856.

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What is known

Nothing is recorded about this place yet.

It is on a register, which is how it got onto this map, but no statement about its past has been read out of a source and written down. When one is, it will appear here with the document it came from beside it.

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The street it stands on — then and now

Now — Google Street View, 2025-03

The photograph names Cambridge Terrace in its title — the street the register gives this place — and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose verified outside Westend Stories. The street’s own record → · the whole collection →

Leads, unread first 10 of 38

What a search of DigitalNZ returned for this place. Nobody has read these yet, so nothing here is being asserted about the ground.

Nearby on the register

Canterbury Club Gas Lamp and Setting
Canterbury Club Hitching Post and Setting
Digby's Commercial School/Worcester Chambers and Setting — 69 Worcester Street
Worcester Street Bridge and Setting
Former CSA / CoCA Gallery and Setting — 66 Gloucester Street
Captain Robert Falcon Scott Statue and Setting — 153 Oxford Terrace
Former Municipal Chambers and Setting — 159 Oxford Terrace
Mill Island and Setting — 71 Hereford Street

The reports nearby

5,987 council reports pinned within 250 m of the place — most often Graffiti & vandalism and Roads & footpaths, 4,953 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.