| LOCATION |
| Map |
Show Map
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| Address |
Cemetery Avenue NAILSWORTH |
| Locality |
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| Accuracy |
L - low level confidence |
| Council Area |
Prospect Council |
| Polygon Type |
B - Building footprint |
| DESCRIPTION |
| Details (Known As) |
North Road Church of England Cemetery, including the Chapel |
| Registered Name |
Main North Rd Church of England Cemetery |
| Significance |
Established in 1853 and originally intended simply as the parish burial ground of Christ Church, North Adelaide, the North Road Cemetery eventually became the main Anglican burial ground to serve Adelaide. Like West Terrace Cemetery, it is of exceptional State significance.
The cemetery has some of South Australia's principal pioneers, explorers and leaders buried within its bounds. Charles Hawker, Daisy Bates, the Mortlock family, the Bagot family, William Charles Belt and William Bakewell the lawyers, Sir Ross and Keith Smith, John Chambers, William Milne, Harry Butler and Jimmy Melrose are just a few of those whose remains lie there.
In its history and development it reflects the difficulties of the Anglican Church in adapting to a society in which there was to be no established church.
It contains many fine monuments, some of them unique, and many representative of the range of more elaborate and expensive monuments available in South Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth century.
The monuments contain much documentary evidence, some of it not recorded elsewhere, of considerable importance to the history of the State. The cemetery also contains a fine, and in South Australia a rare, example of an Anglican cemetery chapel. |
| Subject Index |
Cemeteries and burial sites - Cemetery; Religion - Chapel |
| Class |
State |
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| STATUS |
| Status Code |
REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register |
| Status Date |
04-MAR-1993 |
| REFERENCE |
| LGA |
Prospect |
| State Heritage ID |
14138 |
| Heritage Number |
3191 |
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| SECTION 16 INFORMATION |
| Section 16 |
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| PLAN PARCEL & TITLE |
| As listed in the SA Heritage Register |
| Plan Parcel & Title Information |
CT 5504/602 F7111 A2,CT 5733/718 F217777 A21-34 |