Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
St. Patrick's Church
Sydney, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- museum
- Year built
- 1830
- Decade built
- 1830-1839
- Cultural association
- Lebanese, Syrian, Maronite
- Notice of registration date
- 11 March 1983
- Civic address
- 87 Esplanade
- Community
- Sydney
- County
- Cape Breton
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.14283, -60.19862
- File number
- Prov_file_3
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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
the church's age, its role in the history of the Roman Catholic Church on Cape Breton Island and its long association with the development of the City of Sydney and with that City's Maronite community.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of St. Patrick’s Church include:
- rubble and coursed stone used for the three-foot walls;
- cut stone around the windows and doors and also in the quoins;
- cornerstones that came from the ruins of the Fortress of Louisbourg;
- tower with cupola;
- plain fascia and soffits on the eaves;
- arched windows with voussoirs and plain lug sills;
- original hand-hewn beams.
Character-defining elements of the Gothic style of St. Patrick’s Church include:
- Gothic windows, pointed arch windows, lancet windows, hoodmolds;
- dominating door openings.
Nearby in the register
- Kennedy Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Cossit Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- Jost Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.