Conservation Plan Addington Cemetery - Christchurch City Libraries

Conservation Plan for Addington Cemetery
This charter has been formally adopted by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust, the
Department of Conservation and a number of territorial authorities, including the
Christchurch City Council.
The charter identifies eight conservation processes being:
1. Non‐intervention (not carrying out any work)
2. Maintenance
(the protective care of an historic place)
3. Stabilisation (the arrest of the processes of decay)
4. Repair (the making good of decayed or damaged material)
5. Restoration (returning a place as nearly as possible to a known earlier stage by
reassembly, reinstatement and/or the removal of extraneous additions)
6. Reconstruction (the introduction of new material to replace that which has been
lost and can only be carried out where sufficient evidence is available and the need
is essential)
7. Adaptation (modifying the place to suit it to a compatible new use involving the
least possible loss of cultural heritage value)
8. Interpretation (making the heritage values of the structure accessible)
One or a combination
of the above processes may be appropriate to effect the optimum
level
of conservation. For cemeteries generally (and including Addington Cemetery), the
most appropriate
conservation procedure, other than Maintenance, is nearly always
Stabilisation.
For some individual items, Repair and/or Restoration may be appropriate.
More rarely, partial Reconstruction may be appropriate for individual heritage features in
particular circumstances. Interpretation, which could be seen to complement actual
conservation
processes, may also be appropriate for cemeteries.
General Policy 3
New Works
Any work carried out at Addington Cemetery should not diminish heritage values.
Conservation treatment, including non‐intervention, as well as any other works carried out
at the cemetery should take account of the burials, graves and historic tree plantings.
Where remedial work is required, aim to repair rather than replace historic material.
Original materials should be respected. In carrying out repairs, materials matching the
original should be generally used where they are available. New landscaping and
plantings should only occur if this does not diminish heritage values.
Any new work, for example that associated with new burials, or the interment of ashes,
should be clearly identified as being new work, yet not detract from
features.
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existing heritage