Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
St. Andrew's United Church
Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Notice of registration date
- 29 August 2012
- Civic address
- 40 Bentinck Street
- Community
- Sydney
- County
- Cape Breton
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.13879, -60.19425
- File number
- Prov_file_285
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3 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1764 map "L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1764 · L'Isle Royale, Située a l'Entrée du Golphe de Saint Laurent (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Eastern Half of Nova Scotia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sydney, Canada. Coal Resources of the World. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
connection to Rev. Dr. John Pringle; location of the church; it is a community, as well as a Nova Scotian, icon; connection to Rhodes and Curry. Character defining elements, which include: its Gothic Revival style; facades built using locally made bricks; buttressed belfry towers of differing heights; arched windows; dentil moulding on belfry towers; cornice on the belfry towers; 3 over 3 arched windows in upper belfry of taller tower; 3 arched windows in upper belfry of lower tower; wide entry staircase; 3 arched entries containing 2 wooden doors each; and Palladian derivative window above entry.
Nearby in the register
- Lyceumpublicunder 1 mi
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Sacred Heart Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Kennedy Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.