Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Sainte-Marie Church
Church Point, Digby, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1905
- Decade built
- 1900-1909
- Architect/designer
- Auguste Regneault
- Builder
- Léo Melanson
- Cultural association
- Acadian
- Notice of registration date
- 18 January 2001
- Civic address
- 1713 Highway 1
- Community
- Church Point
- County
- Digby
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.33407, -66.11625
- File number
- Prov_file_247
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 LibrariesBarry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1859 map "Colton's Maine (1859)" (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1859 · Colton's Maine (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Digby, 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
this building's status as both architectural and cultural landmark.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Sainte Marie Church include:
- wood cladding;
- location close to the campus of the Université Sainte-Anne;
- wood framing.
Character-defining elements of Sainte Marie Church that relate to its Romanesque Revival style include:
- windows with label mouldings and stained glass;
- long, double belfry openings
- tower with round headed window;
- rectangular windows in the turrets and across the centre of the tower;
- interior arches supported by large round pillars with ornate Corinthian capitals;
- band of ornamental arches under clerestory windows running around the entire perimeter of the church.
Character-defining elements of Sainte Marie Church that relate to its French architectural influence include:
- two-storey, five-sided chancel extension;
- two large turrets flanking central steeple
- four small turrets at base of roof spire
Nearby in the register
- Belliveau Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Isaac LeBlanc Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.