Second Anglican Cemetery Municipal Heritage Site

The Second Anglican Cemetery has been designated a municipal heritage site by the Town of Arnold’s Cove because of its historic, aesthetic, and spiritual values.

The Second Anglican Cemetery has historic value as the town’s second-oldest Anglican cemetery. It was established in 1915, consecrated by Bishop William Charles White on August 28, 1919, and used for burials into the 1970s. Bishop White was the first native-born bishop for the Anglican Diocese of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador.

The cemetery also has historic value because its monuments and extant headstones contain historic and genealogical type information, serving as a community record on the landscape.

The Second Anglican Cemetery has aesthetic value because of the traditional type of gravemarkers used. Most are comprised of marble and granite, and they have tablet or column forms. Their placement in the cemetery, set in the natural groundcover of the fenced land, evokes the twentieth century period during which it was used for burials. It is a distinctive landscape feature located along Arnold’s Cove’s main road.

The Second Anglican Cemetery has spiritual value due to its association with the Anglican religion in Arnold’s Cove. The cemetery represents the religious beliefs of the community.