Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
King Seaman Church
Minudie, Cumberland, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1848
- Decade built
- 1840-1849
- Notice of registration date
- 25 June 2003
- Civic address
- 5508 Barronsfield Road
- Community
- Minudie
- County
- Cumberland
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.77558, -64.34813
- File number
- Prov_file_255
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4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1879 map "County of Cumberland, 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 Cumberland, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Kent, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, 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 historical associations with Amos Seaman who built the church as a Universalist Church open to all Protestant faiths; and the establishment of a streetscape comprising of three provincially registered heritage buildings.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of King Seaman Church include:
- location, contributing to the Minudie streetscape;
- one-storey wooden construction;
- entrance vestibule and steeple located at the front of the building;
- Gothic Revival style arched windows;
- wood cladding;
- concrete and stone pad foundation;
- detailed window trim, cornerboards, frieze boards, fascia and soffits;
- pitched roof.
Nearby in the register
- Minudie School Museumschoolhouse, museumunder 1 mi
- St. Denis Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.