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Heathcote Cemetery
Location42 Pohlman Street, HEATHCOTE VIC 3523 - Property No 204438 LevelIncluded in Heritage Overlay |
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Statement of Significance
What is significant?
Thethird Heathcote Cemetery dating from 1854 is significant. This includes the land as defined by the boundaries, the cypresses, layout of paths and roads, graves, shelter, fence and gates. The Heathcote cemetery is of local historical, aesthetic and social significance to the City of Greater Bendigo. The Heathcote cemetery, established in 1854 is of historic significance as the third cemetery to be established in Heathcote after ones that were briefly used near the existing hospital, and also near the powder magazine. It is of historic significance as the burial place of many of the region's people from 1854. Criterion A It is of aesthetic significance for its layout, stonemasonry in the design of graves, cypress trees, and shelter building. Criterion D The Heathcote cemetery is of social significance as a place of reflection for many local people as well as those from further afield whose friends or relatives are buried there. Criterion G
Group
Cemeteries and Burial Sites
Category
Cemetery/Graveyard/Burial Ground