Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Convocation Hall
Windsor, West Hants, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- school
- Year built
- 1867
- Decade built
- 1860-1869
- Architect/designer
- David Stirling
- Builder
- George Lang
- Notice of registration date
- 21 October 1992
- Civic address
- 17 King's-Edgehill Lane
- Community
- Windsor
- County
- West Hants
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.98266, -64.13597
- File number
- Prov_file_160
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 ArchiveRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
5 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 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Halifax, 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 historical associations since its erection in 1867 with the life of King's College, King's College School and King's-Edgehill School and because of the quality of its Gothic Revival design by the architect David Sterling and the stonework by the contractor George Lang sets it aprt as an important piece of architecture in Nova Scotia.
Character-defining elements
Character defining elements of Convocation Hall relate to its Gothic Revival stone architecture and include:
- sandstone cladding;
- stone building materials;
- wall buttresses;
- large windows dominating the elevation;
- parapet wall;
- carved corbels graced by the heads of Greek philosophers;
- round headed design of windows, set within slightly pointed architraves;
- location on forward slope of hill overlooking expanse of country across Avon River.
Nearby in the register
- Clockmaker's InnB&Bunder 1 mi
- Thornton Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Clifton Museum Park (Haliburton House)museumunder 1 mi
- Christ Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.