Navarre Cemetery, Cnr Escort Street & Stawell-Avoca Road, NAVARRE
Cnr Escort Street & Stawell - Avoca Road NAVARRE, NORTHERN GRAMPIANS SHIRE
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Statement of Significance
The Navarre Cemetery, Cnr Escort Street & Stawell-Avoca Road, Navarre, 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 headstones, the cemetery also features a row of mature cypresses and eucalypts and some additional exotic trees are found within the site.
The Navarre Cemetery is historically and aesthetically significant at a LOCAL level. The Cemetery is associated with the development of the settlement of Navarre in the mid 19th century and the first burial appears to have occurred in 1852. 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 Navarre Cemetery is socially significant at a LOCAL level. It is recognised and valued by the Navarre community and the surrounding district for cultural, spiritual and commemorative reasons.
Overall, the Navarre Cemetery is of LOCAL significance.
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Navarre Cemetery, Cnr Escort Street & Stawell-Avoca Road, NAVARRE - Physical Description 1
The Navarre Cemetery off Moonambel Road, Navarre, has a rural setting. Along one side of the cemetery are a row of mature early cypresses and eucalypts. There are also some early exotic trees within the cemetery. The cemetery is bound by a recent steel mesh fence.
The small open, grassed cemetery contains several surviving graves and headstones. These are arranged in regular rows with grasses areas between. The headstones are predominantly constructed of marble and granite.
There is also a recent red brick memorial wall.
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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