Nurses Memorial Chapel

The Christchurch Hospital Nurses' Memorial Chapel built during 1927 and 1928 commemorates nurses who died in the Great War and in the 1918 influenza epidemic. The architect of the interdenominational chapel was John Goddard Collins who designed the Sign of the Takahe. The Chapel is the only one in the world of its type, and the only New Zealand Church dedicated to the loss of women at War.

Nursing historian Anna Rogers, who has strong links to the Nurses Memorial Chapel has written about the loss of the ten nurses from the Marquette, a troop carrier which was sunk. For the WW1 100th year commemorations New Zealand embraced the history of War nurses, putting on several exhibitions.

It was a victim of the Canterbury earthquakes. Christchurch City Council re-opened the refurbished chapel in October 2018, NZPlaces could use a new photograph.