The Nurses' Memorial Chapel at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand, is registered as a Category I heritage building.
Three Christchurch nurses—Nona Hildyard, Margaret Rogers and Lorna Rattray—died when the troopship SS Marquette was sunk in 1915 by a German submarine.
This was met with strong opposition, and the hospital board found a solution that left the chapel in place.
The next threat of demolition occurred in the 1980s and was again met with strong opposition, with the New Zealand Historic Places Trust issuing a protection notice in August 1989.
Subsequently, the hospital board leased the building to Christchurch City Council, and it is administered by a trust and cared for by a group that calls itself 'Friends of the Chapel'.
In October 2011, the Canterbury District Health Board announced that the chapel would be repaired, after demolition had been considered.