Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
St. Peter's & St. John's Anglican Church
Baddeck, Victoria, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1883
- Decade built
- 1880-1889
- Architect/designer
- Reverend Simon Gibbons
- Cultural association
- Inuit
- Notice of registration date
- 15 August 1990
- Civic address
- 190 Shore Road
- Community
- Baddeck
- County
- Victoria
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.09768, -60.75575
- File number
- Prov_file_124
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
that of the four surviving churches designed by the Rev. Simon Gibbons, the first Eskimo priest, St. Peter's and St. John's best exemplifies the style advocated by the Cambridge Camden Society.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of St. Peter's and St. John's include:
- wood construction;
- board and batten exterior siding;
- tower with helm roof;
- buttresses;
- end chimney;
- pointed arch windows;
- round-headed window in the east elevation.
Nearby in the register
- Gilbert Grosvenor Hallpublicunder 1 mi
- Beinn Bhreagh Hallresidence2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.