Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Old Meeting House (Barrington)
Barrington West, Shelburne, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- c.1771
- Decade built
- 1770-1779
- Cultural association
- New England Planter
- Notice of registration date
- 4 August 1983
- Civic address
- 2408 Highway 3
- Community
- Barrington West
- County
- Shelburne
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.56657, -65.57972
- File number
- Prov_file_14
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1828 map "The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1828 · The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
this property's association with early settlement in Nova Scotia and for its age, which pre-dates 1812.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements associated with the original use of Old Meeting House and its New England meeting house style include:
- two-storey form and massing;
- surrounding burial grounds and stones;
- clapboard cladding;
- central front entrance flanked by two windows on either side;
- three windows on second storey of front facade;
- steeply pitched gable roof with two diamond shaped frames, serving as simple sundials, at each gable end;
- detailed corner mouldings;
- painted face of clock on east side;
- plain cushionless wooden boxes with doors make up pews;
- chandelier;
- interior balcony and wooden wall pulpit with stairs and swinging doors;
- hand-hewn beams and wide floorboards;
- naturally grown knees for wall beams and larger knees for ceiling supports;
- wood frame windows.
Nearby in the register
- Sargent-Homer-Nodwell Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- MacMullen Oil Skin Factoryresidenceunder 1 mi
- Benjamin K. Doane Houseresidence1 mi
- Crowell-Smith Houseresidence2 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.