Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Argyle Historic Church & Cemetery
Argyle, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1877
- Decade built
- 1760-1769, 1870-1879
- Architect/designer
- Kinney, James
- Cultural association
- New England Planter
- Notice of registration date
- 14 June 1990
- Civic address
- Argyle Head Road
- Community
- Argyle
- County
- Yarmouth
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.79620, -65.85713
- File number
- Prov_file_119
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the cemetery is the burial site of John Frost, the first Protestant minister ordained in what is now Canada, and the church and burying ground are visible symbols of the settlement of New England Planters in Argyle Township.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Argyle Historic Church include:
- Gothic Revival features such as the central double door with a long curved window above, four bay façade of curved windows, and massing typical of the Classical Revival structures;
- single storey, wood construction;
- steeply pitched gable roof;
- central tower on the front façade;
- classical decorative cornerboards;
- chimney on rear wall.
Character-defining elements of the Argyle Historic Church Cemetery include:
- mature trees;
- original and historic grave stones and monuments;
- grass-covered interment areas;
- stone wall enclosure with stone step entrance;
- location at rear of the Argyle Historic Church.