Rolleston Avenue
649 reports at 42 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 453 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Rolleston Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Christchurch Central City.
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 addresses on it
- 7 Rolleston Avenue, 124 reports
- 57 Rolleston Avenue, 66 reports
- 52 Rolleston Avenue, 50 reports
- 64 Rolleston Avenue, 43 reports
- 26 Rolleston Avenue, 43 reports
- 5 Rolleston Avenue, 36 reports
- 11 Rolleston Avenue, 34 reports
- 50 Rolleston Avenue, 28 reports
- 9 Rolleston Avenue, 26 reports
- 54 Rolleston Avenue, 24 reports
- 33 Rolleston Avenue, 21 reports
- 49 Rolleston Avenue, 20 reports
- 33E Rolleston Avenue, 20 reports
- 18 Rolleston Avenue, 10 reports
- 4 Rolleston Avenue, 9 reports
- 33Q Rolleston Avenue, 9 reports
- 33O Rolleston Avenue, 9 reports
- 24 Rolleston Avenue, 7 reports
- 72 Rolleston Avenue, 6 reports
- 33F Rolleston Avenue, 6 reports
- 3 Rolleston Avenue, 6 reports
- 54B Rolleston Avenue, 5 reports
- 6-18 Rolleston Avenue, 4 reports
- 6 Rolleston Avenue, 4 reports
- 33C Rolleston Avenue, 4 reports
- 1 Rolleston Avenue, 4 reports
- 54A Rolleston Avenue, 3 reports
- 33J Rolleston Avenue, 3 reports
- 12 Rolleston Avenue, 3 reports
- 10 Rolleston Avenue, 3 reports
- 64A Rolleston Avenue, 2 reports
- 51 Rolleston Avenue, 2 reports
- 50-57 Rolleston Avenue, 2 reports
- 33S Rolleston Avenue, 2 reports
- 33M Rolleston Avenue, 2 reports
- 20–38 Rolleston Avenue, 2 reports
- 14 Rolleston Avenue, 2 reports
- 55 Rolleston Avenue, 1 report
- 54-52 Rolleston Avenue, 1 report
- 33V Rolleston Avenue, 1 report
- 30 Rolleston Avenue, 1 report
- 13 Rolleston Avenue, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 355 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 104 reports
- Trees & parks, 74 reports
- Water & drains, 70 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 24 reports
- Everything else, 21 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 11 reports
- Animals & pests, 3 reports
Year by year
- 2015, 7 reports
- 2016, 12 reports
- 2017, 44 reports
- 2018, 10 reports
- 2019, 13 reports
- 2020, 15 reports
- 2021, 40 reports
- 2022, 61 reports
- 2023, 160 reports
- 2024, 99 reports
- 2025, 142 reports
On the register
- Christ's College Administration Building and Setting, 33Q Rolleston Avenue
- Christ's College Chapel and Setting, 33G Rolleston Avenue
- Christ's College Dining Hall Tower and Hospital and Setting, 33 Rolleston Avenue
- Christ's College Former Big School and Setting, 33R Rolleston Avenue
- Christ's College Former Condell's House and Setting, 33U Rolleston Avenue
- Christ's College Former Hare Memorial Library and Classrooms and Setting, 33H Rolleston Avenue
- Christ's College Former New Classrooms and Setting, 33 Rolleston Avenue
- Christ's College Jacobs House and Setting, 33K Rolleston Avenue
- Christ's College Memorial Dining Hall and Setting, 33J Rolleston Avenue
- Christ's College Open Air Classrooms and Setting, 33I Rolleston Avenue
- Christ's College School House and Setting, 33A Rolleston Avenue
- Classics Building and Setting, 50 Rolleston Avenue
- College Hall and Setting, 50 Rolleston Avenue
- Curator's House and Setting, 5 Rolleston Avenue
- Robert McDougall Art Gallery and Setting, 9 Rolleston Avenue
- West Lecture Block and Setting, 50 Rolleston Avenue
On foot, The school’s own register · The old university walk this street.
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 155 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- Mountfort Drawing: Sketch of Present Museum and Future Extensions, c 1865
· Canterbury Museum,
…front reads: "Sketch of present Museum and future extensions." The Canterbury Museum on Rolleston Avenue, designed by B. W. Mountfort, first opened in 1870. The first incarnation of the Museum was a…
- Canterbury Museum, Christchurch
· Kura Heritage Collections Online,
Canterbury Museum facing Rolleston Avenue in Christchurch. Photographs / He Whakaahua; John Webster Collection…
- Museum - Christchurch N.Z. 219
· Auckland Libraries Heritage Images Collection,
Showing the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch viewed from Rolleston Avenue Auckland Libraries Heritage Images Collection…
- Avenue of trees, Christchurch Botanic Gardens
· Kura Heritage Collections Online,
An avenue of trees through Christchurch Botanic Gardens running parallel to Rolleston Avenue. A man is standing between the pillars of the Canterbury Museum (right). Photographs / He Wh…
- Christchurch Museum building
· Tauranga City Libraries Photograph Collection,
The Christchurch Museum building at 11 Rolleston Avenue, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand. Part of Photograph Collection…
- Rolleston Avenue looking north
· Canterbury Stories,
View along Rolleston Avenue looking north towards the School of Art, Canterbury College, and with the intersection with H…
- Rolleston Avenue and Canterbury College in snow
· Canterbury Stories,
View along Rolleston Avenue towards the Great Hall and other Canterbury College buildings in snow on the corner with Worc…
- Botanic Gardens towards the Curator's House
· Canterbury Stories,
View of the Christchurch Botanic Gardens looking parallel to Rolleston Avenue towards the William Sefton Moorhouse statue and the Curator's house. Samuel Anstey collecti…
- Hereford Street, Christchurch
· Canterbury Stories,
Hereford Street, Christchurch. Looking west towards Rolleston Avenue and the Botanic Gardens. 2021 Photo Hunt…
- Rolleston Avenue in snow
· Canterbury Stories,
View along Rolleston Avenue and Canterbury College in snow, looking north to the School of Art and intersection with Here…
- Specimen trees at eastern end of Botanic Gardens
· Canterbury Stories,
…he Botanic Gardens. To the right is the William Sefton Moorhouse with the intersection of Rolleston Avenue and Hereford Street in the background and the School of Arts buildings on the left. Samuel…
- Botanic Gardens after snow
· Canterbury Stories,
…er snowfall, looking towards the William Sefton Moorhouse statue and Curator's House with Rolleston Avenue behind. Samuel Anstey collection…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
Schools on it
The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.
- Christ's College, Secondary (Year 9-15) · private, not rated · roll 707
The businesses on it, 7
Premises whose address in the directory is Rolleston Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
Atawhai CafeCafés · 4 Rolleston Avenue
Christchurch Grand TourAttractions · Departs from Rolleston Avenue, Central City (or pre-arranged central hotel pick-ups)
Christchurch Running ToursAttractions · 50 Rolleston Avenue, Central City
Curator's HouseRestaurants · 7 Rolleston Avenue, Botanic Gardens, Central City
Curators HouseRestaurants · 7 Rolleston Avenue
Lumière Arthouse CinemaBusiness · 26 Rolleston Avenue, Central City
Ravenscar HouseGalleries · 52 Rolleston Avenue
The named ground
Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Rolleston Avenue in 19 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
Its file in the papers
Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 (Evening Post, 12 April 1898) · Evening Post,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 (Evening Post, 13 April 1898) · Evening Post,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Evening Post, 10 May 1898) · Evening Post,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 5 (Evening Post, 23 October 1901) · Evening Post,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 27 September 1905) · Star,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 30 October 1906) · Star,
- SCHOOL EXCURSIONS TO THE EXHIBITION. (Otago Witness, 06 February 1907) · Otago Witness,
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 09 November 1907) · Star,
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 06 June 1908) · Star,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 08 February 1909) · Star,
- Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 27 February 1909) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 08 March 1909) · Star,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 17 June 1909) · Star,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 18 June 1909) · Star,
- Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 26 June 1909) · Star,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 11 October 1909) · Star,
- THE CITY OF THE PLAINS. (Marlborough Express, 16 June 1910) · Marlborough Express,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Evening Post, 09 June 1917) · Evening Post,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Evening Post, 14 November 1918) · Evening Post,
- TREES IN WELLINGTON (Evening Post, 29 April 1919) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1 Rolleston Ave,
- Pavement - Damaged, 11 Rolleston Ave,
- Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 57 Rolleston Ave,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 11 Rolleston Ave,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 7 Rolleston Avenue,
- Traffic Signals, 49 Rolleston Ave,
- Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 64 Rolleston Ave,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 7 Rolleston Avenue,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 33E Rolleston Avenue,
- Trees - General, 10 Rolleston Ave,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 52 Rolleston Avenue,
- Damaged Street Sign, 57 Rolleston Ave,
- Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 57 Rolleston Ave,
- Roads - General, 7 Rolleston Avenue,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 7 Rolleston Avenue,
Questions, answered briefly
In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.
649 reports at 42 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (355), roads & footpaths (104), trees & parks (74).
2015, the record covers 453 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Christ's College Administration Building and Setting, Christ's College Chapel and Setting, Christ's College Dining Hall Tower and Hospital and Setting, 13 more on the register.
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