Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
All Saints Anglican Church & Cemetery
Rossway, Digby, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1845
- Decade built
- 1840-1849
- Notice of registration date
- 7 February 1991
- Civic address
- 10219 Highway 217
- Community
- Rossway
- County
- Digby
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.58469, -65.90292
- File number
- Prov_file_133
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Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
The 1879 map covering this location: "County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces)" (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the church's architecture is an excellent example, in rural Nova Scotia, of a synthesis of the colonial American meeting house style and 18th century British classicism; and because of its importance in the history of the Church of England in Digby Neck.
Character-defining elements
Exterior character-defining elements of All Saints Anglican Church relating to its combination of American meeting house and 18th century British Classicism style include:
- gabled roof;
- square bell tower;
- square-headed windows on the front elevation;
- remains of a closed in Palladian window on the rear elevation;
- simple, shingled spire;
- the rear elevation is shingled;
- clad in clapboarding.
Character-defining elements of All Saints Anglican Church relating to its Gothic Revival style:
- pointed Gothic Revival windows on the side elevations indicate later renovations (ca. mid or late 19th c.)