A photograph of the dome of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament being deconstructed.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament".
A photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Bells from the ChristChurch Cathedral".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "ChristChurch Cathedral with the war memorial".
A photograph of the Government Life building in Cathedral Square.
A stained-glass window in the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament casts coloured light onto carved angels on the wall, seen before the earthquakes.
The damaged north-west corner of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, supported by shipping containers.
An aerial photograph of Cathedral Square with the sites of demolished buildings visible.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Part of the tower fell through the Cathedral roof".
Damage to the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. Large cracks are visible around the windows.
A photograph of the south side of the ChristChurch Cathedral. Scaffolding has been set up against one of the walls.
Photo of Cathedral Square, Christchurch taken by Paul Gofton, 6 September 2010.
A digital copy of a pen and ink and watercolour painting by Raymond Morris, titled, 'Christ Church Cathedral 1'.
An aerial photograph looking north-east over Cathedral Square with the Government Life building in the centre.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Millennium Hotel, Cathedral Square".
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "A large hump under the artificial turf at Cathedral Grammar School, Chester Street".
A photograph of the dome of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament being deconstructed.
A digital copy of a pen and ink and watercolour painting by Raymond Morris, titled, 'Christ Church Cathedral 2'.
A view looking up at the central dome of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Barbadoes Street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Cathedral Square".
A photograph of the dome of the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament being deconstructed.
Cranes above the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Barbadoes Street.
Photograph captioned by BeckerFraserPhotos, "Millennium Hotel, Cathedral Square".
‘Ice Cream Charlie’ operated a well-known ice cream cart in Cathedral Square for much of the first half of the twentieth century. He was reknowned for his friendly nature and delicious …
Written by Helen Solomons In 1879, my great grandfather, Mortimer Cashman Corliss, was promoted to head telegraphist in Christchurch’s newly built Post and Telegraph Office in Cathedral Squar…
“There are two classes of Christchurch postcards – those with the Cathedral and those without.” [1] The elegance of a lost age is captured in this exquisite photochrom post…
On the north east corner of Cathedral Square, the Commercial Hotel, owned by John Etherden Coker (1832 – 1894) was opened in 1863. The name Warner’s was not used until the hotel’s…
In 1987, Jack Perkins recorded an award-winning documentary capturing the life, the sounds and the personalities of Cathedral Square in Christchurch. Thirty years on, Deborah Nation parallels that experience with the sounds of September 2011 as engineer Gabrielle Parker escorts her Shrough the earthquake Red Zone into the square as it is today.
Thirty-four years ago, Spectrum producer Jack Perkins recorded his award-winning documentary capturing the life, the sounds and the personalities of Cathedral square in Christchurch. In this edition of The Vault, Deborah Nation parallels that experience with the sounds of 2011 as she is escorted through the earthquake Red Zone into the square as it is today.