Great Western Cemetery, 21 Cemetery Road, GREAT WESTERN
21 Cemetery Road GREAT WESTERN, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The Great Western Cemetery, 21 Cemetery Road, Great Western, has significance as an important place of commemoration and as a significant cultural landscape. It appears to have been established in the early 1860s and features numerous headstones, grave surrounds and other cemetery architecture amongst a rural grassed setting punctuated by eucalypts.
The Great Western Cemetery is historically and aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. It is associated with the development of the settlement of Great Western in the early 1860s, and it demonstrates important visual qualities. These qualities include the rural setting comprising an open grassed area featuring numerous headstones, grave surrounds and other cemetery architecture laid out in regular rows with grassed paths and eucalypts between.
The Great Western Cemetery is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by the Great Western community for cultural, spiritual and commemorative reasons.
Overall, the Great Western Cemetery is of LOCAL significance.
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Great Western Cemetery, 21 Cemetery Road, GREAT WESTERN - Physical Description 1
The site of the Great Western Cemetery, 21 Cemetery Road, Great Western, encompasses large grassed area on slightly sloping land that is punctuated by various eucalypts. A recent aluminium palisade fence approximately 1300 mm high forms the cemetery boundary. The graves are laid out in regular rows separated by grassed paths and the various grave surrounds, headstones and monuments are an obvious feature of the cultural landscape.
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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SEPPELTS CHAMPAGNE CELLARSVictorian Heritage Register H0338
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Former Common SchoolNational Trust
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Great Western Lead - Historic Mining ReserveNational Trust
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