Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Round Church (Little Dutch Church)
Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1756
- Decade built
- 1750-1759
- Builder
- Cleesattel, Christopher
- Cultural association
- British Colonial, German, Foreign Protestant
- Notice of registration date
- 3 May 1984
- Civic address
- 2393 Brunswick Street
- Community
- Halifax
- County
- Halifax
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.65579, -63.58557
- File number
- Prov_file_24
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, 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 1763 map "Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1763 · Plan De La Baye De Chibouctou : nommée par les Anglois Halifax (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Halifax, N.S. (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 age of this building and its association with the origins of British colonialism in Nova Scotia.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Little Dutch Church include:
- concrete and brick foundation;
- wooden shingle cladding;
- all elements of original Dutch-framed portion;
- extension and tower built in post-and-beam construction;
- steeply pitched gable roof;
- simple, rectangular bell tower with round-headed louvered vents on all four sides;
- bell tower capped by a small, octagonal bell-cast or "witch's hat" spire;
- 6-over-6 single-hung wooden windows;
- wooden shutters on all windows;
- location in the north end of Halifax;
- three unrestored brick crypt shafts beneath church;
- large mass grave under church;
- reproduction of original eighteenth century rooster weather vane, with the directions indicated by German initials;
- historic interior elements including barrel vault ceiling, wood paneling, room arrangement, interior doors, communion rail, Houseal monument, and Lockman hatchment.
Character-defining elements of the Little Dutch Church cemetery include:
- all gravemarkers;
- ironstone wall surrounding cemetery.
Nearby in the register
- St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Buddy Daye Homeresidenceunder 1 mi
- West-Buley Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.