Old Methodist Cemetery Municipal Heritage Site
Leading Tickles, Terre-Neuve et Labrador, A0H, Canada
Reconnu formellement en:
2007/07/20
Autre nom(s)
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Liens et documents
Date(s) de construction
Inscrit au répertoire canadien:
2007/09/10
Énoncé d'importance
Description du lieu patrimonial
The Old Methodist Cemetery is located in a clearing at the area known as Hannam’s Garden, in a wooded area, alongside a footpath to Rowsell’s Island, in the Town of Leading Tickles. It is a small, fenced cemetery and includes three individually fenced grave plots and less than ten extant headstones. The Municipal Heritage Land designation includes all the area of the cemetery land fenced in at the time of designation.
Valeur patrimoniale
The Old Methodist Cemetery is significant for its historic and aesthetic values.
The Old Methodist Cemetery has historic value as the second oldest cemetery in the Town of Leading Tickles, and because of its connection with the Methodist/United Church congregation in the community. The cemetery appears to have been in use as a burial ground through the mid 1900s.
The cemetery’s headstones’ inscriptions have value as historic records. Five of the remaining legible stones commemorate members of the Chippett family while the others commemorate two women named Rowsell, another family long associated with the area. Both are surnames long connected with the Leading Tickles area.
The Old Methodist Cemetery has aesthetic value because its location along an historically used footpath towards Rowsell’s Island and its traditional appearance evoke the early twentieth century. Its surviving white marble headstones are typical of the period in their style and material. Three instances of traditional type grave plot fencing consisting of low, wooden, white-painted pickets also remain. In typical fashion, the cemetery is grassy and entirely surrounded by wooden fencing. These elements combine to make the cemetery a distinctive cultural landscape feature.
Source: Source: Motion #07-66, Town Council Meeting Minutes, Town of Leading Tickles, 2007/07/20
Éléments caractéristiques
Physical elements connected to the historic value of the site including:
-location along old path;
-type (tablet), materials (marble) and placement of extant headstones;
-type (picket), materials (wood) and placement of extant grave plot boundary fencing;
-natural, grassy topography;
-and wooden fencing surrounding cemetery.
Reconnaissance
Juridiction
Terre-Neuve et Labrador
Autorité de reconnaissance
Municipalités de TNL
Loi habilitante
Municipalities Act
Type de reconnaissance
Terre, structure ou édifice patrimonial municipal
Date de reconnaissance
2007/07/20
Données sur l'histoire
Date(s) importantes
1900/01/01 à 1950/01/01
Thème - catégorie et type
- Établir une vie sociale et communautaire
- Les institutions religieuses
Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction
Actuelle
Historique
- Religion, rituel et funéraille
- Site funéraire, cimetière ou enclos
Architecte / Concepteur
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Constructeur
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Informations supplémentaires
Emplacement de la documentation
Town of Leading Tickles, PO Box 39, Leading Tickles, NL, A0H 1T0
Réfère à une collection
Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
NL-3417
Statut
Édité
Inscriptions associées
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