13 October 2021

Spirited Cemetery Tours – Avonside Parish Cemetery

A cemetery tour revealing not only the great and good but also the interesting, scandalous and downright evil.

Join local historian Richard Greenaway on a tour of the Avonside Parish Cemetery and discover the historic graves of geologist and museum founder Julius von Haast, Canterbury Superintendent William Rolleston and his socialite wife Mary Brittan, and architects J. C. Maddison and B. W. Mountfort.

Cemetery tour booklets available $5.

Entry from Lychgate Close. Meet at lychgate entrance.

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Join local historian Richard Greenaway on a tour of the Avonside Parish Cemetery and discover the historic graves of geologist and museum founder Julius von Haast, Canterbury Superintendent William Rolleston and his socialite wife Mary Brittan, and architects J. C. Maddison and B. W. Mountfort.

Cemetery tour booklets available $5.

Entry from Lychgate Close. Meet at lychgate entrance.

Location
Avonside Parish Cemetery, 20 Lychgate Close, Linwood

Event contact

Spirited Cemetery Tours
03 260 0926
richatdlngreenaway@gmail.com

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