Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
St. James United Church
Great Village, Colchester, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1883
- Decade built
- 1880-1889
- Architect/designer
- James Charles Dumaresq
- Builder
- Rhodes, Curry & Company
- Cultural association
- Irish, Scottish
- Notice of registration date
- 20 July 1995
- Civic address
- 8729 Highway 2
- Community
- Great Village
- County
- Colchester
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.41671, -63.60041
- File number
- Prov_file_196
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David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe 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 LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1879 map "County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 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 Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 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 Kings, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its association with Presbyterian history in old Londonderry Township, and because of the interpretation by its architect, the Nova Scotian born James Charles Dumaresq, of the Gothic Revival in a manner consistent with the style's origins and the Great Village setting.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements relating to the Gothic Revival style of St. James United Church include:
- wood frame construction;
- clapboard siding;
- cut stone foundation;
- central tower and spire, rising 112 feet;
- steeply pitched roof;
- corner and side buttresses;
- narrow, pointed windows;
- hammerbeam ceiling and walls painted to resemble ashlar.
Nearby in the register
- Layton's General Storecommercialunder 1 mi
- Bulmer Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Great Village Schoolschoolhouseunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.