Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Saint John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church
Windsor, West Hants, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1897, 1909
- Decade built
- 1890-1899, 1900-1909
- Architect/designer
- William Critchlow Harris
- Builder
- Angus MacDonald
- Notice of registration date
- 27 April 1998
- Civic address
- 339 King Street
- Community
- Windsor
- County
- West Hants
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.99321, -64.13296
- File number
- Prov_file_228
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 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 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
the building's distinctive architecture, which well demonstrates architect W. C. Harris' philosophy of both religious and domestic design.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements relating to the Gothic Revival style elements of the Saint John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church include:
- Wallace sandstone construction;
- wall buttresses;
- pointed arch window openings;
- articulated bell tower, with spire;
- plan form with transepts and side aisles.
Character-defining elements relating to the Queen Anne Revival style of the Glebe House of the Saint John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church include:
- wooden structure;
- round, squat tower with steeply pitched conical tower;
- broad, shallow arches of the verandah;
- clipped gable of the roof profile.
Nearby in the register
- Christ Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Thornton Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Hantsport Railway Stationrailway stationunder 1 mi
- Clifton Museum Park (Haliburton House)museumunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.