Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
St. John the Baptist Church
Corberrie, Digby, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1837
- Decade built
- 1830-1839
- Cultural association
- Acadian
- Notice of registration date
- 17 June 1991
- Civic address
- Highway 340
- Community
- Corberrie
- County
- Digby
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.23543, -65.92925
- File number
- Prov_file_140
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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is the second oldest surviving Roman Catholic Church in the Province; and because of its association with both Abbe Sigogne, the most important figure in the survival of the French and Catholic tradition among the Acadians of south west Nova Scotia and Frederick Armand Robichaud, one of the first two Acadians elected to the Provincial Legislature. Note: Building no longer extant; land still registered.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of St. John the Baptist include:
- building form and massing of the wooden church with its front tower entrance;
- gabled roof;
- Romanesque Revival style windows;
- shingled steeple;
- cemetery surrounding church.