Carriage Gate
This fine Edwardian building is listed as an entrance chapel on the maps of Carr Villa Memorial Park in the Launceston suburb of King's Meadow. But in reality it was the keeper's headquarters with an archway through which the horse drawn hearses (1905) were brought after the funeral procession had made its way to the cemetery. It's very much like the old "lych gates" where the transition was made from the profane world to the sacred burial grounds. Today it is used for shelter by visitors waiting to be picked up in the rain.
Carriage Gate
This fine Edwardian building is listed as an entrance chapel on the maps of Carr Villa Memorial Park in the Launceston suburb of King's Meadow. But in reality it was the keeper's headquarters with an archway through which the horse drawn hearses (1905) were brought after the funeral procession had made its way to the cemetery. It's very much like the old "lych gates" where the transition was made from the profane world to the sacred burial grounds. Today it is used for shelter by visitors waiting to be picked up in the rain.