Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1883
- Decade built
- 1880-1889
- Architect/designer
- George Jost
- Builder
- Henry Peters
- Cultural association
- Irish
- Notice of registration date
- 16 June 1989
- Civic address
- 2263 Brunswick Street
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.65426, -63.58294
- File number
- Prov_file_101
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1763 map "Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1763 · Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Halifax, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Halifax, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1906 · No. 39, Halifax (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is an outstanding example of High Victorian Gothic church architecture and because of its role as the church for the northend Halifax Irish.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church relating to its Gothic Revival style include:
- brick and stone construction;
- rectangular plan;
- steeply-pitched gable roof;
- five-sided apse;
- slightly steeped, central tower;
- symmetrical three bay front façade, each with double entrance under a pointed arch which springs from Corinthian columns;
- tympana containing bar tracery, forming a quatrefoil design in the side arches and a cinquefoil pattern in the centre;
- arched windows divided by bar tracery into lancets topped with a trefoil design on the sides and octafoil in the centre located above each entrance;
- soaring finials which top the side buttresses and mark the four corners of the tower at the springing point of the spire.
Nearby in the register
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- West-Buley Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- West-Osler House (Personage House)residenceunder 1 mi
- West-Webster Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.