Church, gaol and the workshops
Addington’s register entries make one tight loop: a church with its square, its belltower and its lychgate all listed separately, a row of listed dwellings, the cemetery, the old gaol wall and the railway workshops' water tower. Under two kilometres end to end, a suburb’s whole history in one circuit.
The walk, as a line
Straight between pins, the streets run longer. Every numbered pin opens that place’s own record.
The stops, in order
- Former Addington Railway Workshops Water Tower and Setting, 66H Clarence Street · Heritage NZ list 5390 · 28 unread leads
The workshops' water tower, the railway works' own landmark, first on the walk.
- Dwelling and Setting, 13 Spencer Street · Heritage NZ list 4914 · 20 unread leads
A listed dwelling on the way in, the streets kept a house too.
- Former Addington Gaol, Wall and Setting, 15/336 Lincoln Road · Heritage NZ list 7467 · 40 unread leads
The former gaol’s wall, the prison is gone; its wall is on the roll.
- Church of St Mary the Virgin and Setting, 21A Church Square · Heritage NZ list 7516 · 34 unread leads
Church of St Mary the Virgin, the heart of the square.
- Church of St Mary the Virgin Belltower and Setting · Heritage NZ list 7516
The church’s belltower, listed in its own right.
- Church Square and Setting, 21A Church Square · Heritage NZ list 7516 · 29 unread leads
Church Square itself, the ground is on the register.
- Church of St Mary the Virgin Lychgate and Setting · Heritage NZ list 7516
And the lychgate, the square’s fourth separate listing.
- Dwelling and Setting, 383 Selwyn Street · Heritage NZ list 3698 · 18 unread leads
The first of three listed dwellings in a row.
- Dwelling and Setting, 389 Selwyn Street · Heritage NZ list 3700 · 20 unread leads
The second.
- Dwelling and Setting, 391 Selwyn Street · Heritage NZ list 3699 · 12 unread leads
The third, a street’s worth of the roll, house by house.
- Addington Cemetery and Setting, 410 Selwyn Street · 41 unread leads
Addington Cemetery, the walk ends with the suburb’s dead.
The reports along it
3,972 council reports pinned within 150 m of the line, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 3,223 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Damaged Street Light
Noise - General
Damaged Street Sign
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or waQuestions, answered briefly
Addington’s register entries make one tight loop: a church with its square, its belltower and its lychgate all listed separately, a row of listed dwellings, the cemetery, the old gaol wall and the railway workshops' water tower. 11 listed places, 1.9 km as the line runs, Addington.
Former Addington Railway Workshops Water Tower and Setting (66H Clarence Street) to Addington Cemetery and Setting (410 Selwyn Street), the order is a suggestion, not the only way round.
Every one, each pin is a row in the district plan’s heritage schedule, and each opens the place’s own sourced record here.
1.9 km measured straight between the pins, the streets run longer, and the stops deserve a pause each.
The record behind this
Every stop is a row in the district plan’s heritage schedule, held here as the register’s own layer. The order and the notes are ours, the listings are the council’s and Heritage New Zealand’s. "Setting" is the register’s word for the ground a listing covers.
The rest of the register here: Addington
The same ground today: Addington
This page as markdown: /walks/addington-church-and-gaol.md · the route as data: /walks/addington-church-and-gaol.geojson · on the live map: the walks layer.