Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Northwest United Baptist Church
Northwest, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1818
- Decade built
- 1810-1819
- Notice of registration date
- 24 June 2002
- Civic address
- 1609 Old Northwest Road
- Community
- Northwest
- County
- Lunenburg
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.41377, -64.36759
- File number
- Prov_file_254
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1828 map "The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet)" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1828 · The north eastern coast, North America, New York to Cape Canso (center sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 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)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
this is the oldest documented Baptist house of worship in Nova Scotia, with strong associations with the local development of that denomination.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Northwest United Baptist Church relating to its Meeting House Transition Phase style architecture include:
- off-center single main entrance on the gabled end;
- two-and-a-half storey wood frame structure;
- medium pitch gable roof;
- return eaves;
- corner boards designed as Greek Revival pilasters with simple capitals;
- two sets of one-over-one vertical sashed windows on the gabled end, with main entrance off to side, and with top window located near return eave;
- a centered paned window in mid peak of gabled end with main entrance that form a point, with diagonal corners;
- three bay façade of vertical sashed windows over another three bay façade of vertical sashed windows on the elevation facing the Northwest Road all with 12/8 panes;
- two vertical sashed windows on rear face flanking a triple set of Gothic Revival arch windows;
- cemetery in continuous use.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.