Kadina. Old copper mining town on Yorke Peninsula. On the lean. Headstones in the Kadina cemetery with the mortuary chapel in the distance.
Kadina Cemetery. The cemetery for Kadina was established in 1867 for the fast growing town. It followed typical 19th Century cemetery design with a strong axis line for dividing the four areas of the cemetery and a protective wall around the entire perimeter of the cemetery in local limestone. Its size is indicative of the size and importance of the town of Kadina in the 1860s. The unique feature of the cemetery though is the large and impressive mortuary building in the middle. It was designed for horse pulled hearses to be able to stop and rest in the middle for the unloading of the coffin. Side rooms were for use of cemetery authorities. It is constructed in limestone with brick quoins, now painted. A central chimney provides ventilation. The date above the arch is 1876.It has buttresses on the side walls, blind windows on the façade and a pediment as a gable end. It is not mysterious but it is unique in SA. It is not a chapel.
Kadina. Old copper mining town on Yorke Peninsula. On the lean. Headstones in the Kadina cemetery with the mortuary chapel in the distance.
Kadina Cemetery. The cemetery for Kadina was established in 1867 for the fast growing town. It followed typical 19th Century cemetery design with a strong axis line for dividing the four areas of the cemetery and a protective wall around the entire perimeter of the cemetery in local limestone. Its size is indicative of the size and importance of the town of Kadina in the 1860s. The unique feature of the cemetery though is the large and impressive mortuary building in the middle. It was designed for horse pulled hearses to be able to stop and rest in the middle for the unloading of the coffin. Side rooms were for use of cemetery authorities. It is constructed in limestone with brick quoins, now painted. A central chimney provides ventilation. The date above the arch is 1876.It has buttresses on the side walls, blind windows on the façade and a pediment as a gable end. It is not mysterious but it is unique in SA. It is not a chapel.