# Nurses' Memorial Chapel and Setting

2J Riccarton Avenue · Central City · Heritage NZ list 1851
https://www.chch.live/place/194
Locality record: [Central City on the register](https://www.chch.live/history/central-city)
Street record: https://www.chch.live/street/christchurch-central-city/riccarton-avenue
Stands inside: [Nurses Memorial Chapel](https://www.chch.live/park/1472-nurses-memorial-chapel) — the park outlines the pin falls inside
What else stood here: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.53420160032647&lon=172.62426016139258
On a walk: [The school’s own register](https://www.chch.live/walks/christs-college)

## The encyclopaedia on it

The Nurses' Memorial Chapel at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand, is registered as a Category I heritage building. The chapel is significant as New Zealand's first hospital chapel, and as the country's only World War I memorial solely dedicated to women, and is worldwide the only hospital chapel dedicated to nurses who died in World War I.

— Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurses'_Memorial_Chapel), a tertiary source

## Documents tied to this place

*These are leads, not evidence — search results nobody has read yet.* The first 10 of 40 are listed.
- Laying of the Nurses’ Memorial Chapel foundation stone (1927-03-15T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/nurses-memorial/ccl-cs-78584
- Nurses relax in the Chapel window (1930-01-01T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/nurses-memorial/ccl-cs-78585
- Nurses’ Memorial Chapel attached to Christchurch Hospital (1985-01-01T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/nurses-memorial/ccl-cs-78591
- Nurses’ Memorial Chapel exterior (1996-01-01T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/nurses-memorial/ccl-cs-78582
- Nurses’ Memorial Chapel garden (2005-01-13T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/nurses-memorial/ccl-cs-78588
- Nurses’ Memorial Chapel garden (2010-07-06T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/nurses-memorial/ccl-cs-78589
- Lawn outside Nurses' Memorial Chapel (2015-12-05T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/nurses-memorial/ccl-cs-78642
- Close up of runner at the Nurses Memorial Chapel (2022-01-01T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/nurses-memorial/ccl-cs-78586
- Entrance to the Nurses’ Memorial Chapel (2022-08-18T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/nurses-memorial/ccl-cs-78594
- Nurses’ Memorial Chapel lectern (2022-08-18T00:00:00Z) — https://www.canterburystories.nz/collections/community/nurses-memorial/ccl-cs-78616

## Questions, answered briefly

**What is Nurses' Memorial Chapel and Setting?**

A place on the record in Christchurch Central City, at 2J Riccarton Avenue — Heritage New Zealand list no. 1851.

**Where is Nurses' Memorial Chapel and Setting?**

2J Riccarton Avenue, Christchurch Central City — [on the map →](https://www.chch.live/map#-43.53420160032647,172.62426016139258,17)