Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Greenville United Baptist Church
Greenville, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1853
- Decade built
- 1850-1859
- Cultural association
- Black Loyalist, African Nova Scotian
- Notice of registration date
- 7 January 1993
- Civic address
- 726 Greenville Road
- Community
- Greenville
- County
- Yarmouth
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.86168, -66.04927
- File number
- Prov_file_165
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 one of the oldest surviving churches erected by the Nova Scotia Black community and since its erection in 1849 it has been little altered and is on its original site.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Greenville United Baptist Church relating to its Vernacular style include:
- exterior wood frame construction;
- one storey back addition;
- one storey centred front entrance;
- medium pitched gable roof with bell-cast eaves;
- symmetrical facade;
- large, roughly defined Greek Revival style pilasters standing in high relief along the side elevations;
- double hung sash windows;
- 6/6 glazing in facade windows;
- 6/9 glazing in side windows;
- pedimented crowns on windows;
- shingle cladding;
- exterior chimney at back;
- location on its original site;
- inactive cemetery with a wooden sign marked ‘Cemetery.'
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.