Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Cornwallis Reformed Presbyterian Convenanter Church
Grafton, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1842
- Decade built
- 1840-1849
- Cultural association
- New England Planter, Irish
- Notice of registration date
- 9 August 1991
- Civic address
- 4953 Highway 221
- Community
- Grafton
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.10060, -64.70486
- File number
- Prov_file_147
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Saint John, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its simple traditional Covenanter style of architecture remains unaltered since its erection in 1843 and because it is the only Covenanter Church remaining in Eastern Canada.
Character-defining elements
Exterior character-defining elements of the Covenanter Church include:
- wood frame construction;
- wood shingle cladding;
- open gable roof;
- 6/6 windows with original glass;
- main door with large carpenter's lock;
- cemetery surrounding the church, with original gravemarkers.
Nearby in the register
- Kinsman-Salsman Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.