Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Sacred Heart Church
Sydney, CBRM, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Notice of registration date
- 18 September 2025
- Civic address
- 217 George Street
- Community
- Sydney
- County
- CBRM
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 46.14280, -60.19416
- File number
- Prov_file_321
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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
its heritage value based on its age and architecture, the building’s former use, and character-defining elements; which include its: rectangular two-storey massing; steeply pitched-roof; overall symmetry of its facades and Gothic Revival arch window placement; stained glass windows with tracery; stained-glass clerestory windows with Gothic Revival arch above the single-storey side aisles; existing hood molding on windows and doors; existing wooden brackets below the roof eaves; five entrance doors with Gothic Revival arch transoms along the street façade; two a-symmetrical bell towers with spires; and location along George Street.
Nearby in the register
- Lyceumpublicunder 1 mi
- St. George's Anglican Churchchurchunder 1 mi
- Cossit Housemuseumunder 1 mi
- Kennedy Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.