St. Matthew's Anglican Cemetery Municipal Heritage Site
St. Lawrence, Terre-Neuve et Labrador, A0E, Canada
Reconnu formellement en:
2005/08/16
Autre nom(s)
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Liens et documents
Date(s) de construction
Inscrit au répertoire canadien:
2008/01/21
Énoncé d'importance
Description du lieu patrimonial
St. Matthew's Anglican Cemetery Municipal Heritage Site is located on the grounds of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church off St. Matthew’s Street, in the Town of St. Lawrence. The cemetery has been in use since the nineteenth century. The municipal heritage designation includes the entire cemetery area bounded by fencing and the church building.
Valeur patrimoniale
St. Matthew’s Anglican Cemetery has spiritual, historic and aesthetic values.
The cemetery has spiritual and historic values as a consecrated Anglican burial ground in use for over a century. The oldest extant headstone indicates that it was established by at least the early 1860s.
St. Matthew’s Anglican Cemetery has historic value through its connection to St. Lawrence’s fluorspar mining industry, which was of primary importance to the local economy from the 1930s through most of the 1970s. St. Matthew’s and other area cemeteries point to the unfortunate side of St. Lawrence’s mining heritage, as the remains of some 200 miners whose deaths were linked to occupational disease are interred at those sites.
The cemetery has historic value because its gravemarkers are inscribed with information pertaining to genealogy, such as familial relationships and dates of birth and death. The extant markers record over thirty local surnames.
The cemetery’s gravemarkers have artifactual value. White marble is the predominant material of the older headstones, typical of the time in which they were produced, as are their designs and carved motifs.
The preponderance of marble gravemarkers punctuating the grassy cemetery ground contributes to the site’s aesthetic value by evoking the nineteenth and early twentieth century period, as does the rather organic way in which the grave plots were laid out over the years. The site is situated on a high plain overlooking the harbour and is very visible from most points in the community. These combined elements make St. Matthew’s Anglican Cemetery a distinctive historic place in St. Lawrence.
Source: Motion 05-128, Town of St. Lawrence Town Council meeting of 2006/08/16
Éléments caractéristiques
All those elements which contribute to the aesthetic and historic significance of the site:
-inscriptions and designs of gravemarkers;
-preponderance of marble headstones amongst the older gravemarkers;
-grassy groundcover;
-and visible location on a high elevation, on the church grounds.
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
2005/08/16
Données sur l'histoire
Date(s) importantes
1861/01/01 à 1861/01/01
Thème - catégorie et type
- Exprimer la vie intellectuelle et culturelle
- La philosophie et la spiritualité
Catégorie de fonction / Type de fonction
Actuelle
- Religion, rituel et funéraille
- Site funéraire, cimetière ou enclos
Historique
Architecte / Concepteur
s/o
Constructeur
s/o
Informations supplémentaires
Emplacement de la documentation
Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1 Springdale Street, PO Box 5171, St. John's, NL, A1C 5V5
Réfère à une collection
Identificateur féd./prov./terr.
NL-2916
Statut
Édité
Inscriptions associées
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