Nurses' Memorial Chapel

Nurses' Memorial Chapel
The Nurses Memorial Chapel following the February 2011 earthquake
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43°32′03″S 172°37′27″E / 43.53419°S 172.62429°E / -43.53419; 172.62429
LocationChristchurch Hospital, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch
CountryNew Zealand
Denominationinterdenominational
Websitecnmc.org.nz
History
Statusclosed due to damage sustained in the 2010 Canterbury earthquake
Designated20 July 1989[1]
Reference no.1851

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,[1] and is worldwide the only hospital chapel dedicated to nurses who died in World War I.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Nurses' Memorial Chapel". New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero. Heritage New Zealand. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Welcome to the Christchurch Nurses Memorial Chapel". Friends of the Chapel. Retrieved 5 March 2016.