St Marys Church
a church, Halswell
a church
The record
- The map calls it
- a church
- Religion
- christian
- Address
- 329 Halswell Road
- Street
- Halswell Road
- Suburb
- Halswell
In the archive
- Documents naming it on the shelf →
- The record’s own search for it →
- The suburb it stands in →
- The whole roll →
A document a search names is a lead worth reading, not a claim the site makes.
Other places of worship near it 4
The nearest other places of worship by distance, proximity on the map, not a claim of kinship.
The green nearby 4
Parks whose drawn outline sits within 400 m, measured to the outline itself, so a place on a big reserve’s edge still counts.
The register nearby 4
Heritage-register places within 300 m of the place’s point, proximity, not a claim of place.
Remembered on the ground 3
Plaques standing within 300 m of the point, the ground’s own footnotes, not the congregation’s.
The reports nearby
572 council reports pinned within 250 m of the place, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Trees & parks, 466 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.
Facility - General Request
Pothole
Dumped Rubbish
Playground Equipment
Pothole
Public Toilet
Water Leak
Pavement - Damaged
Damaged Road
Pothole
Road Signage
Bus Shelter IssueGetting there
The nearest stop the Metro map carries, measured to the pin, not the door.
Questions, answered briefly
329 Halswell Road, Halswell, Christchurch, on the map →.
The map calls it a church. That is the mapper’s tag, not this site’s own survey.
Source: OpenStreetMap way/26451487 (ODbL). A directory, not a census of faith: name, religion, denomination and address are the tags OpenStreetMap’s mappers give each place, and a tag the map does not carry stays unstated here rather than guessed from a name. A listing is a lead, not a claim, it says a place of worship is mapped on this ground, not that a congregation meets there this week. Coordinates pin the building as the map draws it.