Nurses’ Memorial Chapel
The Nurses' Memorial Chapel at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand, is registered as a Category I heritage building. The chapel is significant as New Zealand's first hospital chapel, and as the country's only World War I memorial solely dedicated to women, and is worldwide the only hospital chapel dedicated to nurses who died in World War I.Photo: Schwede66, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Church
- Description: church in Christchurch, New Zealand
- Also known as: “Christchurch Nurses Memorial Chapel” and “Nurses‘ Memorial Chapel”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Christchurch Hospital and Hagley Oval.
Christchurch Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Phillip Capper, CC BY 2.0.
Christchurch Hospital is the largest tertiary hospital in the South Island of New Zealand. The public hospital is in the centre of Christchurch city, on the edge of Hagley Park, and serves the wider Canterbury region. Christchurch Hospital is situated 140 metres northeast of Nurses’ Memorial Chapel.
Hagley Oval
Stadium
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hagley Oval is a cricket ground in Hagley Park in the central city of Christchurch, New Zealand. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1867, when Canterbury cricket team hosted Otago cricket team. Hagley Oval is situated 450 metres west of Nurses’ Memorial Chapel.
Christchurch Outpatients Building
Hospital
Photo: Podzemnik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Christchurch Outpatients Building is a hospital, which is situated 240 metres east of Nurses’ Memorial Chapel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Christchurch and Addington.
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the second most-populous urban area in the country. As well as having the most attractions of any place in the South Island, it's the major international entry point for visiting the rest of the island.
Addington
Suburb
Addington is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand. It is sited 2.5 kilometres south-west of the city centre. As an inner city suburb, Addington has a mix of residential, retail and light industrial properties.
Merivale
Suburb
Merivale is a suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, north of the city centre. Like all suburbs in Christchurch, it has no defined boundaries and is a general area, but for the purposes of statistical analysis only, Statistics New Zealand defines it as being…
Nurses’ Memorial Chapel
- Categories: chapel, war memorial, historic building, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Christchurch City, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, Oceania
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Latitude
-43.53423° or 43° 32′ 3″ southLongitude
172.62427° or 172° 37′ 27″ eastInception
1928Open location code
4V8JFJ8F+8POpenStreetMap ID
way 53839858OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=chapelWikidata ID
Q23035508
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