Bendigo Cemetery

70 CARPENTER STREET, QUARRY HILL - PROPERTY NUMBER 175458, GREATER BENDIGO CITY

Bendigo Cemetery

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Statement of Significance

• Other Records For This Place
  • BENDIGO CEMETERY - Victorian Heritage Register
  • BENDIGO CEMETERY - Greater Bendigo City
  • BENDIGO CEMETERY - Greater Bendigo City
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  • Physical Description 1

    Bendigo Cemetery - Physical Description 1

    Bendigo General Cemetery extends over approximately 28 acres, the majority of which is utilized. The undulating site is located along the Back Creek (Carpenter Street) and extends west up the hill where the reserve for native plants was part of the original cemetery reserve. The formal path layout extends throughout the north and south of the site, much of the southern section still undeveloped. The cemetery is located to the south of the main civic centre of the town and commands views in the east to nearby forested hills. The main entry from Carpenter Street and facing west is the original entry and contains gate and fence. Major structures are the lodge just within the Carpenter Street gates and to the south the chapel to the north west of the lodge and facing the entry and the decorative octagonal rotunda, restored in the past decade. The path layout is a complex arrangement of sinuous bitumen paths looping from the central path off Carpenter Street and from there throughout the site including the southern section. Much of the present layout can be compared to the 1857 survey plan for integrity such as the entrance off Carpenter Street and the southern path loop defining the Independents. The paths form boundaries of denominational coml?artments and the central western section is occupied by a large section of Chinese graves and associated burning towers. The cemetery contains important examples of headstones demonstrating a range of styles and the different periods of burial. Planting in the cemetery consists of a backdrop of Elicalypus spp. on Quarry Hill with some individual specimens throughout the grounds as well as Cypress, Cedrus deodara, Magnolia grandiflora near the chapel, Washingtonia filifera and a carob, Ceratonia siliqlla.However the grounds do not contain anywhere near the collection of rare and mature exotic trees as at the White Hills or Eaglehawk cemeteries. It seems that a different and possibly unique planting style was the development of walks dating from c1870s? identified by iron markers each bearing the name of a fragrant flower both native and exotic. Walks still visible are the wallflower, primrose, violet, geranium, boronia, aster, marigold, wattle and columbine paths.

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Heritage Study and Grading

    Greater Bendigo - Eaglehawk & Bendigo Heritage Study

    Author: Graeme Butler & Associates
    Year: 1993
    Grading: B

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  • 038 - Cemetery Chapel, Carpenter Street
    
  • 039 - Bendigo Cemetery, Hitching Posts
    
  • 040 - Burke & Wills Monument, Carpenter Street
    
  • 041 - Chinese Burning Towers, Carpenter Street
    
  • Bendigo Cemetery Landscape Area Citation 1993
    
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