The Chief Post Office or Christchurch Central Post Office, originally known as the Government Buildings, is located in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, New Zealand. The building was initially a post of
The Chief Post Office following the completion of restoration work
The building's setting within Cathedral Square in 2009
Chief Post Office prior to the 1907 extension, still with two symmetrical façades
William Clayton in 1860
William Clayton (architect)
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William Henry Clayton was a Tasmanian-born colonial architect who practised initially in Van Diemen's Land and then in New Zealand. He was New Zealand's first Colonial Architect, serving in the positi
Chief Post Office, Christchurch
…buildings in Cathedral Square, opposite the Anglican Church's building site. A Bill passed in 1873 vested the site in the Crown. Plans were drawn by William Henry Clayton, the first (and only) Colonial Architect to New Zealand. Clayton had previously designed the (former) post office in Lyttelton, and that building…
Old Government Buildings, Wellington
Clayton's headstone
St Andrew's Kirk, Launceston in late winter, August 2015