Cemeteries

Conservation Plan Linwood Cemetery

A conservation plan for Linwood Cemetery has been prepared by Opus international consultants to provide Christchurch City Council with tools to restore and maintain one of the city’s oldest cemeteries for future generations.

Linwood Cemetery, which opened in 1883, was the first municipal cemetery of the Christchurch City Council, which at that time had its town belt bounded by the four avenues. In keeping with international trends of the time, the Cemetery was located on the outskirts of the city, bounded by Butterfield Ave, Hay St, Buckley Rd and McGregors Rd.

The cemetery is the fifth oldest surviving cemetery to be established in Christchurch and is an historical record of many early Christchurch residents. The nature of the cemetery means that it is thought that there is a wider cross-section of society buried there than at other Christchurch cemeteries and church graveyards of the nineteenth cemetery.

Linwood Cemetery is the resting place of many ordinary citizens of Christchurch and several notable New Zealanders including Bishop Churchill Julius, the second Anglican Bishop of Christchurch; Thomas John Edmonds and his wife Jane Elizabeth Edmonds of Edmonds Factory fame; explorer Arthur Dudley Dobson; and Annie Quayle Townend, the fabled daughter of Glenmark sheep-king G H Moore.

Have Your Say

Have Your Say on the Draft Linwood Cemetery Conservation Plan. The consultation is open 17 October – 18 November 2005.

Read the Council Media Release.

Read the Draft Linwood Cemetery Conservation Plan and the accompanying Appendices

These documents are PDFs. You will require the free Adobe Acrobat reader to view them.

• Draft Linwood Cemetery Conservation Plan [1,150KB]

• Appendix 1 [360KB]
• Appendix 2 [209KB]
• Appendix 3 [100KB]
• Appendix 4 [91KB]
• Appendix 5 [77KB]
• Appendix 6 [96KB]
• Appendix 7 [34KB]
• Appendix 7a [126KB]

For Further Information

Visit the library Cemeteries information web pages.