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Noraville Cemetery and Memorial Niche WallGraves at Noraville Cemetery

Located at the corner of Wilfred Barrett Drive and Oleander Streets at Norah Head, this general cemetery was opened in 1869.

It is divided into seven sections.

  • An Anglican section, which is the biggest in the cemetery and includes three rows of lawn.
        
  • A Jewish section, which is also lawn with two concrete beams.
        
  • Roman Catholic, Methodist and Presbyterian sections, which contain old-style grave sites.
        
  • A small General area and a Salvation Army section.  

    Where it is situated  

    Noraville cemetery

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    Headstones and tributes
    A concrete beam has been constructed to hold approved headstones in the lawn cemetery. Council is not responsible for maintaining headstones or memorials

    Floral tributes are restricted to the concrete beam next to each headstone. Ornaments, crosses, statues, icons, vases or other items are not allowed on the lawn and flowers, shrubs grass or trees cannot be planted at a gravesite or elsewhere in the lawn cemetery.

    Memorial Niche Wall at Noraville cemeteryMemorial Niche Wall
    Noraville cemetery also features a niche wall, with 100 receptacles for receiving cremated remains.

    A Niche can be purchased in advance and reserved. Only half the ashes fit in the wall container.

    Next of kin can either be met onsite by Council staff for the placing of ashes into the wall, or ashes can be collected from local residents. Council does not hold ashes in its offices.

    Each container in the Memorial Wall has a bud holder for flowers.

    Memorial Garden
    The first two stages of a Niche Memorial Garden has been developed with 128 receptacles for cremated remains..

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    Page last updated: 09/07/2008

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