Caparisoned
Horses' finery.
Cemetery
A place where the dead are buried.
Columbarium
A building with tiers of niches used for the reception of cinerary urns.
Connoisseurs
Expert judge on matters of tatse.
Consecrated
Dedicated for a religious purpose.
Conservation
All the processes of looking after a place so as to retain its 'cultural significance'. This
includes maintenance and may, according to circumstance, include 'preservation', 'restoration',
'reconstruction' and 'adaptation'. It will often mean a combination of more than one of these.
Conservation Plan
A document setting out what is significant in a place and, therefore, what policies are
appropriate to enable that significance to be retained in its future use and development.
Contentious
Argumentative.
Continuing Use of Graves
Continued use of graves by family members. It can include graves in cemeteries as well as
private or family burial sites.
Cortege
Procession for a funeral.
Crematorium
A building in which corpses are cremated.
Crypt
A chamber or vault used as a burial place for multiple interments.
Cultural Significance
Aesthetic, historic, scientific or social value for past, present and future generations.
Curvilinear
A plan or design characterised by curved lines. 'Gardenesque' style usually has this sort of layout.
Gardenesque
A landscape design style characterised by garden-like open spaces and often 'curvilinear' paths
and plantings.
Gothic Revival
A nineteenth century revival of the mediaeval gothic style of architecture and art. It is
characterised by asymmetry and steep verticality of structural and decorative elements such as
pointed arches, spires and pitched roofs.
Grave Furniture
Ornamental items that are supplementary to the principal memorial on grave plots such as urns,
vases and grave surrounds.
Grave Marker
Any object used to mark a grave site such as plaques, signs, rocks, timber crosses and
monuments.
Grid
A design or pattern of regularly spaced horizontal and vertical lines crossed at right angles to
each other.
Immortelles
Funerary ornaments, usually in the form of a floral wreath or posy, made of ceramic and metal.
Indictment
A formal accusation.
Interment
Burial of a corpse.
Interpretation
An educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of
original objects, by first hand experience, and illustrative media, rather than by simply
communicating factual information.
Reconstruction
Returning a place as nearly as possible to a known earlier state. This process is distinguished
by the introduction of materials (new or old) into the 'fabric'. The process is not to be
confused with either 're-creation' or 'conjectural reconstruction'.
Restoration
Returning the existing 'fabric' of a place to a known earlier state by removing accretions or by
reassembling existing components without the introduction of new material.
Re-Use of Graves
Limited tenure allows the 're-use of graves' after a specified period of time - identified by
relevant state or territory legislation, where legislation exists. Graves can be re-used by
unrelated persons.
Ritual
Order of performing religious rites.
Romantic
A style of the late eighteenth and early ninteenth centuries characterised by freedom,
imagination and experimentation with form.
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