Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Cole Harbour Meeting House
Cole Harbour, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1830
- Decade built
- 1830-1839
- Notice of registration date
- 16 December 1998
- Civic address
- 1436 Cole Harbour Road
- Community
- Cole Harbour
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.67259, -63.46992
- File number
- Prov_file_233
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David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1879 map "County of Halifax, 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 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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its historical association with the development of the Methodist denomination in Nova Scotia.
Character-defining elements
Character defining elements of the Cole Harbour Meeting House include:
- heavy timber frame stucture;
- sides and roof clad in wood shingles;
- gable roof;
- front entrance porch;
- Gothic Revival style doorway and windows;
- symmetrical appearance;
- almost surrounded by about thirty graves of early settlers, with few markers remaining;
- set back from the edge of Long Hill;
- trees surrounding the building on two sides.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.