Anglican Church War Memorial Cemetery. is a Municipal Heritage Site in Arnold's Cove.
The First Anglican Cemetery and War Memorial Site Municipal Heritage Site is a grassy,fenced area that contains mainly white marble headstones and adjoins the community's war memorial site,which features a white marble monument. The Designation includes all land within the fence surrounding the cemetery,the monuments,grave markers and other physical features contained within,plus the adjoining war memorial monument area.
Heritage Value.
The cemetery has historic value as the Town's oldest known cemetery and was part of the first commuinty infrastructure at Arnold's Cove,which included a church,school and circa 1888 cemetery. Neither the church nor the school remains today but the cemetery was used for burials until the second Anglican Cemetery was established in 1915,and occasionally after that. The first Anglican Cememtery remains on the landscape as a reminder of the community's early years and because its monuments and extant headstones contain historic and genealogical type information.
Jonathan Boutcher is credited with the leading role in the establishment of the first church,school and cemetery in Arnold's Cove, and an inscribed bell from the former Anglican Church has been erected at the first Anglican Cemetery as a monument to his efforts.
The Community war memorial was erected in 1921,adjoins the cememtery at the entrance gateway. This marble monument stands on the former site of the community's first church of England church, and because it memorializes Arnold's Cove's veterans. It is the focal point of the community's annual Remembrance Day ceromony.
The first Anglican Cemetery has aesthetic value because its marble monuments and gravemarkers in tablet or column forms set in the grassy,fenced land evokes the nineteenth to early twentieth century period during which it was in use for burials. The style and white marble material of the war memorial monument is visually cohesise with the cemetery. Together,the cemetery and monument form a distinctive landscape feature in a very visible area along Arnold's Cove's main road,near the oceanside,in the historic heart of the commuinty.
The cache is not in the Cemetery itself but very close by.
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