Christchurch - Cathedral Square

Cathedral Square had a large number of buildings and statues that are registered with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. Many of them were damaged and a few were lost in the Christchurch earthquake of February 2011.

The large open square in front of the Christchurch Cathedral is the hub of the city's life and for long the pride of its citizens. There was great indignation when George Bernard Shaw, visiting Christchurch in 1935, admired Petre's neoclassical Roman Catholic cathedral and dismissed the Anglican cathedral as 'too academic'.