Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Westport Baptist Church
Westport, Digby, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1850
- Decade built
- 1850-1859
- Notice of registration date
- 13 February 1991
- Civic address
- 50 Wellington Street
- Community
- Westport
- County
- Digby
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.26149, -66.35486
- File number
- Prov_file_131
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1859 map "Colton's Maine (1859)" (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1859 · Colton's Maine (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman 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
for 140 years the church has been closely associated with the fishermen of Brier Island, to whom the steeple has served as a landmark and because of its connection with the family of Joshua Slocum.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Westport Baptist Church include:
- large square tower projecting from the center of the front elevation forming an entrance porch;
- clad with shingles up to the ball peak of its steeple spire;
- dominating location overlooking St. Mary’s Bay.
Character-defining elements of the Gothic Revival style of Westport Baptist United Church include:
- steeply pitched gable roof;
- pointed arch windows;
- tower is topped with belfry and spire;
- large pointed window over the entrance, with detailed tracery pattern.
Nearby in the register
- Slocum Boot Shopfish shedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.