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Canterbury Club |
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| The Canterbury Club (established 1874) was the merchants’ rival to the Christchurch Club. |
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Hanmer Springs |
| Hanmer Springs - Canterbury |
| An inland resort popular with people from Christchurch and the Canterbury area, Hanmer also attracts tourists who delight in its natural thermal hot pools. It offers a wide variety of other outdoor ac... |
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Acheron Accommodation House |
| Hanmer Springs - Canterbury |
| This cob building was erected in 1862-63 by the Nelson Provincial Government, when the inland route from Hanmer through to Nelson and Marlborough was well-used by travellers and to move stock south in... |
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Rapaki Track |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| Once a Maori trail, the Rapaki Track provides a direct route for walkers and mountain bikers to reach the Summit Rd from the Christchurch suburb of Hillsborough.
An easy walk, it will take about a... |
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St Michael and All Angels |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| High Victorian Gothic expressed in timber. Built in 1872, St Michael and All Angels is the mother church of Canterbury. The expressive belltower designed by Mountfort dates from 1861. |
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Oxford Terrace Baptist Church |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| Spurning the 19th Century predilection for neo-gothic Christchurch's Baptist community opted for a classical style more suited to the non-conformist style of worship for their handsome Oxford Terrace ... |
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Theosophical Society Hall |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| Though it is not a church in the conventional sense, the Theosophical Society Hall is a further example of a Christchurch religious group using a style other than Gothic. The hall was designed by Ceci... |
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Captain Scott Memorial |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| This statue of the Antarctic explorer, was sculpted by his wife. Christchurch was the New Zealand base for Captain Scott’s Antarctic expeditions in 1901 and 1910. If you interested in Antarctica don't... |
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Antigua Boatsheds |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| Go boating on the Avon and take the family. Enjoy an outing that has been available to Christchurch visitors for 120 years. These sheds date from 1882 and have an Historic Places Category l rating.
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Government Buildings |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| The masterpiece of Christchurch architect J.C. Maddison, the imposing Renaissance Revival style of the Government Buildings provides a perfect foil for one of the country’s finest Gothic Revival comme... |
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Cramner Club |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| A distinctive Christchurch building notable for its deep red colour and decorated doorway leading directly on to the street.. The first stage was built as a house in 1864. Architect Samuel Hurst Seage... |
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Nurses' Memorial Chapel |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| The Christchurch Hospital Nurses' Memorial Chapel built during 1927 and 1928 commemorates nurses who died in the Great War and in the 1918 influenza epedemic. The architect of the interdenominational ... |
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Isaac Theatre Royal |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| The Theatre Royal is an Edwardian style lyric theatre with a three tier configuration of stalls, circle and gallery, seating 1309. Major redevelopment was undertaken in 2004 - 5.
The original Theat... |
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Rose Historic Chapel |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| Formerly the Chapel of Our Lady of Mercy, the Rose Chapel was the focal point for the complex of St Mary's Convent and school buildings owned by the Sisters of Mercy.
It was designed and built by A... |
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Durham St Methodist Church |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| The first stone church on the Canterbury Plains, and one of the city’s earliest Gothic Revival stone buildings. It opened on Christmas Day, 1864. A surprising event in the light of Christchurch's Chur... |
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Victorian Clock Tower |
| Christchurch - Canterbury |
| Designed by B W Mountfort the Victoria Street Clock Tower was originally intended to sit on the side of the Provincial Council Chambers. The tower for the clock had been made in England, and was shipp... |
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Ngaio Marsh House |
| Cashmere - Canterbury |
| Home of the late Dame Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982), an eminent producer of Shakepeare's plays and a world-renowned crime fiction writer. Her house can be viewed by appointment except on Mondays Phone (03) ... |
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St Augustine's Church (Anglican) |
| Cashmere - Canterbury |
| Built on land given by John Cracroft Wilson, the original gothic St Augustine's dated from 1908 with a shingled spire being added in 1914. The church was enlarged and renovated in 1970 by Warren and M... |
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St Peter's Church |
| Riccarton - Canterbury |
| This is a well known location in Christchurch:"Church Corner". The present St Peters has been here since 1875. It has had design inputs from two of Christchurch's best-known architects, Benjamin Mount... |
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Harbour Light Theatre |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| Through the middle years of the 20th century, a night out at the "pictures" was the highlight of the week for many New Zealand families. The Harbour Light Cinema is a reminder of the place of movie-go... |
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Lyttelton Timeball Station |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| Timeballs, to ensure a ship's chronometer was accurate, were once a feature of many ports. This is the only survivor in New Zealand. As befitted its importance at the time (1876), the building was des... |
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Rapaki |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| One of the original reserves set aside when Canterbury was purchased from the Maori was at Rapaki. Still a thriving Maori village, the settlement has a picturesque church, dating from 1869, a meeting ... |
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Tug Lyttelton |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| Glasgow-built, the tug Lyttelton arrived in Lyttelton in 1907. Its long working life came to an end in 1971. Subsequently it was preserved and is still kept in running order by a local preservation so... |
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Winchester Street Churches |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| On Lyttelton’s Winchester Street stand three early stone churches, all of them important buildings in the development of church architecture in Canterbury. Trinity (Anglican) dates from 1859, St John’... |
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Chief Warder's House |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| Sitting across the road from the site of the former Lyttelton Gaol is this fine colonial house built in a style labelled Rustic Gothic. Known as the Chief Warder's House, it was built by prison labour... |
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Lyttelton Graving Dock |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| Opened in 1883, Lyttelton’s graving dock, still in regular use after more than a century, is one of the country’s most important structures of marine engineering heritage. Its length illustrates the s... |
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Quail Island Walkway (Otamahua) |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| Take a ferry from Lyttelton to access these walks. Now a reserve, Quail Island, in the middle of Lyttelton Harbour, was taken up for farming as early as 1850. It has had a long and fascinating history... |
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Grubb Cottage |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| The cottage is considered to be the most significant colonial domestic dwelling in Lyttelton.
The Grubbs were a key family in the development of Lyttelton and its port.
The rear part of the cott... |
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Lyttelton Gaol Site |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| The infamous Lyytelton prison was here. As the main South Island prison it incarcerated thousands between 1851 and 1922 . Seven men were hung within its walls. Its Hard Labour Gang built roads and sto... |
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Lyttelton Museum |
| Lyttelton - Canterbury |
| Lyttelton's museum found an appropriate home in an old building on an historic site. The immigration barracks (long since demolished) which greeted the Canterbury Association settlers in 1850 once sto... |
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All Saints Methven |
| Methven - Canterbury |
| This church the second on the site is in two sections. After the first church was destroyed in a nor'wester, the original section designed by Benjamin Mountfort (1879) was transported here in 1884 fro... |
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Otira Tunnel - Eastern Portal |
| Arthurs Pass - Canterbury |
| A major engineering triumph, the 8,500 meter Otira tunnel was completed in 1923, sixteen years after tenders were first called. The initial contractors went out of business and the project was complet... |
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Fyffe House |
| Kaikoura - Canterbury |
| Fyffe House, Kaikoura's oldest surviving building, has links with moa hunting, whaling, fishing, farming and port activities.
Fyffe House is a property of the Historic Places Trust. See the website... |
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Kaikoura Museum |
| Kaikoura - Canterbury |
| A small museum, manned by enthusiasts, with exhibits and displays related to the history of the area which in human terms dates back to the moa hunters and includes classic Maori settlements, whalers,... |
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