Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Fort Massey United Church
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1871
- Decade built
- 1870-1879
- Architect/designer
- David Stirling
- Notice of registration date
- 9 December 1996
- Civic address
- 1181 Queen Street
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.63851, -63.57329
- File number
- Prov_file_212
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Halifax, N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Halifax, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Plate K. Part of Ward 1, Halifax. (David Rumsey Map Collection, 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)
- 1879 · County of Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1906 · No. 39, Halifax (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the historical associations of the building with numerable Nova Scotians, notable in the fields of education, business, government and the arts; and the place of this building in the work of accomplished Nova Scotian architect David Stirling.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Fort Massey United Church relate to its Gothic Revival style and include:
- large scale massing;
- yellowish glazed brick, with red sandstone trim construction;
- fieldstone foundation;
- tall spire rising from an octagonal base, to the right of the front elevation;
- front entrance incorporating three doors, set in pointed arched openings, the arches supported on Corinthian pilasters;
- front entrance surmounted by two large windows, also with pointed arches, and above these a small rose window;
- more than a dozen different window shapes used throughout;
- richly-carved ceiling braces supported by hammer-beams;
- clerestory windows;
- cruciform plan form.
Other character-defining elements of Fort Massey United Church include:
- location on former site of Fort Massey;
- Casavant organ.
Nearby in the register
- The Henry Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Universalist Unitarian Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Thorndeanresidenceunder 1 mi
- George Wright Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.