Story: Memorials and monuments

Cargill monument, Dunedin

Cargill monument, Dunedin

A monument to William Cargill, leader of the Free Church migration to Otago and first superintendent of the province, was put up in Dunedin in 1864, four years after his death. The monument was first erected in the Octagon but was moved to the Exchange in 1872. It was not a statue but a Gothic revival spire, and it had other intended functions besides remembering Cargill – it was planned as a gas lamp, a drinking fountain and a viewing platform in the middle of a garden. However, the garden never came about, the drinking fountains were not connected, and in the early 2000s the memorial no longer served to provide light.

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Otago Daily Times
Reference: 27 November 2008, p. 18
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Jock Phillips, 'Memorials and monuments - 19th-century memorials', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/32517/cargill-monument-dunedin (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Jock Phillips, published 20 Jun 2012, updated 26 Mar 2015