Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Stella Maris Church
Pictou, Pictou, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1865
- Decade built
- 1860-1869
- Architect/designer
- Hamill, Owen
- Notice of registration date
- 18 November 1991
- Civic address
- 40 St. Stephan Street
- Community
- Pictou
- County
- Pictou
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.67916, -62.70454
- File number
- Prov_file_149
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Pictou Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Pictou Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Sect. No. 2, Caribou, Pictou County, Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Outline Map of Pictou County, Nova Scotia, 1879. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Pictou, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (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 close historical association with the Roman Catholic Church in Pictou County and because it is a fine example by the ecclesiastical architect, Owen Hamill, of the High Victorian Gothic style in brick.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Stella Maris Church relating to its Gothic Revival style include:
- red brick construction;
- sandstone quoining and architraves;
- buttresses, capped with finials on the front elevation;
- pointed arch windows;
- circular window over the principal entrance;
- prominent central tower, projecting from the front elevation, and surmounted by a tall thin spire;
- location on hilltop overlooking Pictou Harbour.
Nearby in the register
- Stella Maris Conventconventunder 1 mi
- Pictou Iron Foundrycommercialunder 1 mi
- Pictou Iron Foundrycommercialunder 1 mi
- Pictou Iron Foundrycommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.