List of historic places in Christchurch

This list of historic places in Christchurch contains those buildings and structures that are listed, or were listed in early 2011, with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (since renamed to Heritage New Zealand) in Christchurch, New Zealand. The list is confined to the boundaries of Christchurch prior to amalgamation with the Banks Peninsula District in March 2006.

There are two registers of heritage places in Christchurch. One is the national register administered by Heritage New Zealand and the other is the register in the Christchurch City Plan. The scope of this article is the national register only.

There are four parts to the national register; historic places, historic areas, Wahi Tapu (places sacred to Māori) and Wahi Tapu areas. Christchurch has listings in the former two categories. As of July 2011^[update], there were 315 historic places and seven historic areas listed. In August 2011, the Historic Places Trust started the process of removing listings of buildings demolished after the earthquakes, starting with the Manchester Courts and the NZ Trust and Loan Building entries.

Some of the listed buildings suffered damage to varying degrees in the 4 September 2010 Canterbury earthquake. Manchester Courts in the central city was the only listed building that was demolished after that earthquake.

This was only the beginning of a loss of heritage, however; the situation was entirely different when the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake occurred, with some of the listed buildings damaged, and many more lost or to be lost as a result of action by Civil Defence after the earthquake, and the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority's clearance and redevelopment plans. Some heritage buildings fully collapsed during the earthquake, for example the Durham Street Methodist Church (killing three workers), the Stone Chamber of the Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings, the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church and the Sevicke Jones building in Cathedral Square. Other listed buildings partially collapsed, or were badly damaged, including ChristChurch Cathedral, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and Holy Trinity Avonside.

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