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time unconsecrated ground, is
Murderers' Mound—the unmarked burial site of members of the 1846 convict uprising.

In 1836 a long mound was formed to stop drifting sand. Much of the mound was removed by c1950 for fill
but sections remain. Road formations remain to Point Hunter and to the quarries and windmill. The area
was a golf course by the early twentieth century, sharing the site with a racetrack. A cutting remains where
there was a line of rock crushers during World War II, when the old quarry was also reworked. They
produced road base for the airstrip. During World War II Point Hunter was quarried; the hole was later
used as a tip and is now a picnic area.

D Quality Row

The 1830s formal layout of Kingston had the convict establishment on the foreshore and the military
establishment on the north side of the swamp.

Kingston and Arthur's Vale Historic Area—Heritage Management Plan, April 2016

Authorised Version F2016L01891 registered 09/12/2016

Jean Rice Architect | CONTEXT | GML Heritage

The Old Military Barracks

The compound wall, with corner observation towers, encloses the central 1832 barracks and flanking
officers' quarters. Ancillary buildings are the former officers' outbuilding, officers' privy, guard room,
powder magazine, military hospital and wells. In 1855 the main barracks became a Methodist Church with
the first floor and the unstable upper (third) storey removed and a new gable roof added. Burns Philp's
early twentieth-century additions have been removed, as have changes for the c1945-—1979 Works Depot.
In 1979 the earlier form was partly reinstated and the buildings adapted for the Norfolk Island Legislative
Assembly and Court.

The New Military Barracks

This complex, constructed in 1835-1837, has a larger central barracks flanked by officers' quarters
(reconstructed after a fire) and the archaeological remains of a military hospital. The central building has
two large rooms on each floor (now subdivided by internally by partitions, however, they retain their
original volume and some of the original plaster finish). The rooms are articulated externally through the
fenestration pattern. A series of turned timber columns support the front verandah at ground level. The
central stair hall has sandstone flagging and a stone stair. The officer's outbuilding became a lock-up
c1910. The Powder Magazine, which originally had a slate roof, is largely intact as is the guard house,
although only the stonework is original. The compound wall, including the main archway and corner
turrets, survives.

In 1856, Pitcairners initially lived in the barracks. The school was on the second floor from 1856 to 1911,
and the Pitcairners' courtroom (built in 1896) was on the ground floor. The board and batten ceilings are
from this time. In 1926, buildings in this compound were extensively