Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Trinity Anglican Church
Digby, Digby, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1878
- Decade built
- 1870-1879
- Architect/designer
- Stephen Earle
- Builder
- M. L. Oliver
- Cultural association
- Loyalist
- Notice of registration date
- 24 May 1994
- Civic address
- 109 Queen Street
- Community
- Digby
- County
- Digby
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.62035, -65.75774
- File number
- Prov_file_185
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 Libraries
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1828 map "The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1828 · The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet) (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
its historical association with Loyalist settlement of Digby County and because it is considered to be a significant building in the Gothic Revival style designed by Stephen Earle, a notable late 19th century American architect.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Trinity Anglican Church include:
- wood frame structure;
- board and batten cladding along the base of the exterior;
- horizontal belt courses;
- Stick style detailing on the entrance way;
- nave, side aisles, narthex, chancel and spire, though this element is atypically located;
- pointed arch window openings;
- clerestory windows in the nave;
- stained glass rose window, with the Star of David incorporated into the frame pattern;
- wood frame church hall;
- cemetery surrounding the church, with original grave markers.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.