A marble sculptured statue of Captain James Cook set on a granite base, two bronze plaques are set into the base.
The statue commemorates Cook's three voyages around New Zealand and was donated by bookmaker and philanthropist Matthew Barnett (1861 to 1935).
Artist William Tretheway was chosen as the sculptor and he carved the statue from a 12-tonne block of Carrara marble.
Unveiled in 1932, the statue was originally located at the junction of Colombo and Victoria Streets until it was moved in 1989 to its current, more central location.
There is more information about the statues in Christchurch on the Christchurch City Libraries website(external link).
A hundred years on from its unveiling, conservation efforts took place to repair and reinstate the white marble statue of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO, RN onto its original stone base. 
The commemorative bronze statue of James Edward Fitzgerald, the first superintendent of the Province of Canterbury (1853−57), was donated by Christchurch citizen Richard Green. The sculptor Francis Shurrock was a leading interwar New Zealand sculptor. The statue is on a stone plinth on a concrete base. A terrazo plaque is inscripted on the front of the plinth. The inscription reads: 'James Edward Fitzgerald First superintendent of Canterbury 1853–1857.'
This is a two-metre bronze standing figure of John Robert Godley (1814–1861), Resident Chief Agent for the Canterbury Association and the acknowledged ‘Founder of Canterbury’. The statue was originally installed in Cathedral Square in August 1867 and is one of the earliest public statues erected in New Zealand. The bronze statue is the only example of noted Victorian Pre-Raphaelite sculptor Thomas Woolner’s work in New Zealand. 
White marble statue on a stone plinth of William Rolleston, the fourth and last superintendent of Canterbury. The inscription carved into stone, reads: 'William Rolleston Superintendent of Canterbury 1866–1876.'
