Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Saint Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Middle New Cornwall, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Notice of registration date
- 27 January 2021
- Civic address
- 1231 Back Cornwall Road Extension
- Community
- Middle New Cornwall
- County
- Lunenburg
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.50337, -64.52462
- File number
- Prov_file_313
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
its age dating to 1863, its religious history and its notable Greek Revival style of architecture. In addition to its architecture, the character-defining elements for this property include its: original placement along Back Cornwall Road; temple-style and wood-framed original structure with a simple one storey side ell addition; steeply pitched roof with return eaves on core structure with a protruding entranceway at the base of a flat roofed steeple on the southeast facing gabled wall; wooden-shingled cladding with cornerboards; wooden hung windows of various scales; and caps above the main entrance doors and windows.