Hospital Hill Road, Seaview, HOKITIKA
Private
Historic Place Category 2
List No. 1703



List Entry Information
Status
Listed
List Entry Status
Historic Place Category 2
Access
Private/No Public Access
List Number
1703
Date Entered
2nd April 2004
Date of Effect
2nd April 2004
City/District Council
Westland District
Region
West Coast Region
Extent of List Entry
Extent includes part of the land described as Res 453 Town of Hokitika (RT WS2C/170), Westland Land District, and the structure known as Hungerford Mausoleum thereon. Refer to extent map tabled at Rārangi Kōrero meeting on 5 August 2022.
Legal description
Res 453 Town of Hokitika (RT WS2C/170), Westland Land District
Status
Listed
List Entry Status
Historic Place Category 2
Access
Private/No Public Access
List Number
1703
Date Entered
2nd April 2004
Date of Effect
2nd April 2004
City/District Council
Westland District
Region
West Coast Region
Extent of List Entry
Extent includes part of the land described as Res 453 Town of Hokitika (RT WS2C/170), Westland Land District, and the structure known as Hungerford Mausoleum thereon. Refer to extent map tabled at Rārangi Kōrero meeting on 5 August 2022.
Legal description
Res 453 Town of Hokitika (RT WS2C/170), Westland Land District
Why is this place significant?
Historic Significance
Historical Significance or Value It has cultural and historical value as an illustration of the customs and values associated with death in the Victorian period.
Physical Significance
The Hungerford Mausoleum has technological significance as an early and unusual example of the use of concrete.
Why is this place Category 1 / Category 2?
Detail Of Assessed Criteria
(a) it stands as exemplar of Victorian ideas of status, and customs of death. (g) It has technological value as an early example of concrete construction. (j) The mausoleum has rarity value as an example of concrete used on a massive scale in funerary architecture, and as a type of funerary monument seldom seen in New Zealand. It is the only one in a West Coast cemetery.
Why is this place significant?
Historic Significance
Historical Significance or Value It has cultural and historical value as an illustration of the customs and values associated with death in the Victorian period.
Physical Significance
The Hungerford Mausoleum has technological significance as an early and unusual example of the use of concrete.
Why is this place Category 1 / Category 2?
Detail Of Assessed Criteria
(a) it stands as exemplar of Victorian ideas of status, and customs of death. (g) It has technological value as an early example of concrete construction. (j) The mausoleum has rarity value as an example of concrete used on a massive scale in funerary architecture, and as a type of funerary monument seldom seen in New Zealand. It is the only one in a West Coast cemetery.
Construction Details
Start Year
1874
startYearCirca
Type
Original Construction
Construction Materials
Concrete, with iron door and marble panels.
Construction Details
Start Year
1874
startYearCirca
Type
Original Construction
Construction Materials
Concrete, with iron door and marble panels.
The mausoleum is a massive concrete structure, eleven feet square (3.37 metres), with a cruciform barrel-vaulted roof. Concrete paving surrounds two sides of the structure and at the front, where the inscribed panel is located, there is a concrete covered area eleven feet by eight feet (3.37 by 2.8 metres) enclosed by a post and rail fence. Each side of the mausoleum features a central arch with two smaller flanking arches, all defined by concrete pilasters. The capitals of these pilasters provide a stringcourse separating the base from the curving roof structure. On one side is the iron entrance door, now rusted closed and no longer needing the original padlock, with a decorative iron ventilator in the arch above it. In a rondel over the door is a carved coat of arms. Altogether, provision was made for a large number of inscriptions to be added in the many marble panels.
The mausoleum is a massive concrete structure, eleven feet square (3.37 metres), with a cruciform barrel-vaulted roof. Concrete paving surrounds two sides of the structure and at the front, where the inscribed panel is located, there is a concrete covered area eleven feet by eight feet (3.37 by 2.8 metres) enclosed by a post and rail fence. Each side of the mausoleum features a central arch with two smaller flanking arches, all defined by concrete pilasters. The capitals of these pilasters provide a stringcourse separating the base from the curving roof structure. On one side is the iron entrance door, now rusted closed and no longer needing the original padlock, with a decorative iron ventilator in the arch above it. In a rondel over the door is a carved coat of arms. Altogether, provision was made for a large number of inscriptions to be added in the many marble panels.
Historical and Associated Iwi / Hapū / Whānau
Completion Date
7th September 2004
Report Written By
Pam Wilson
Information Sources
West Coast Times
West Coast Times
New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT)
New Zealand Historic Places Trust
Read, 1999
P. Read, Enter the Crypt - A Brief Look at Some of the Famous and Not So Famous Residents of Hokitika's Seaview Cemetery, West Coast Historical Museum, 1999.
Other Information
A fully referenced version of this report is available from the NZHPT Southern Region Office. Please note that entry on the New Zealand Heritage List/Rarangi Korero identifies only the heritage values of the property concerned, and should not be construed as advice on the state of the property, or as a comment of its soundness or safety, including in regard to earthquake risk, safety in the event of fire, or insanitary conditions.
Historical and Associated Iwi / Hapū / Whānau
Completion Date
7th September 2004
Report Written By
Pam Wilson
Information Sources
West Coast Times
West Coast Times
New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT)
New Zealand Historic Places Trust
Read, 1999
P. Read, Enter the Crypt - A Brief Look at Some of the Famous and Not So Famous Residents of Hokitika's Seaview Cemetery, West Coast Historical Museum, 1999.
Other Information
A fully referenced version of this report is available from the NZHPT Southern Region Office. Please note that entry on the New Zealand Heritage List/Rarangi Korero identifies only the heritage values of the property concerned, and should not be construed as advice on the state of the property, or as a comment of its soundness or safety, including in regard to earthquake risk, safety in the event of fire, or insanitary conditions.
Current Usages
Uses: Funerary Sites
Specific Usage: Mausoleum/Tomb/Vault/Ossario
Former Usages
General Usage: Funerary Sites
Specific Usage: Mausoleum/Tomb/Vault/Ossario
Current Usages
Uses: Funerary Sites
Specific Usage: Mausoleum/Tomb/Vault/Ossario
Former Usages
General Usage: Funerary Sites
Specific Usage: Mausoleum/Tomb/Vault/Ossario
Location
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