Glenorchy Cemetery, 171 Cemetery Road, GLENORCHY
171 Cemetery Road GLENORCHY, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The Glenorchy Cemetery, 171 Cemetery Road, Glenorchy, has significance as an important place of commemoration and as a significant cultural landscape to the local area. Characterised by a rural grassed setting with rows of early graves and grave surrounds, and punctuated by mature exotic and eucalypt trees, the Cemetery was reserved in 1862.
The Glenorchy Cemetery is historically and aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. The Cemetery is associated with the development of the settlement of the Glenorchy district in the second half of the 19th century, with the reservation of eight acres for a cemetery in 1862. The Cemetery demonstrates important visual qualities. These qualities include the rural setting with an open grassed area of cemetery ground having numerous surviving graves arranged in rows, and a number of mature exotic and eucalypt trees.
The Glenorchy Cemetery is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by the Glenorchy community and the surrounding district for cultural, spiritual and commemorative reasons.
Overall, the Glenorchy Cemetery is of LOCAL significance.
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Glenorchy Cemetery, 171 Cemetery Road, GLENORCHY - Physical Description 1
The Glenorchy Cemetery, 171 Cemetery Road, Glenorchy, has a rural setting. At the entrance are early scrolled metal gates between concrete posts, with an introduced gate nearby.
The open, grassed cemetery contains several graves with headstones and grave surrounds. Most of the headstones appear to be constructed of granite or marble. The graves are arranged in rows with grassed paths between. Throughout the cemetery are numerous exotic trees (including pines) and eucalypts.
Heritage Study and Grading
Northern Grampians - Shire of Northern Grampians - Stage 2 Heritage Study
Author: Wendy Jacobs, Vicki Johnson, David Rowe, Phil Taylor
Year: 2004
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