Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
St. John's Anglican Church
Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1754
- Decade built
- 1750-1759
- Architect/designer
- Stirling and Dewar
- Builder
- Morash, Solomon
- Cultural association
- German, Foreign Protestant
- Notice of registration date
- 11 March 1983
- Civic address
- Cornwallis Street
- Community
- Lunenburg
- County
- Lunenburg
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.37810, -64.31112
- File number
- Prov_file_4
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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)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
the church's age and long association with the Town of Lunenburg and the entire South Shore area as an institution of religion, learning and social reform. The fine quality of design featured in both the interior and exterior of the church, was also considered.
Character-defining elements
Exterior character-defining elements of St. John’s Anglican Church relate to all pre-2001 and restored elements and include:
- copper roof;
- wooden doors and cladding;
- location in the centre of Old Town;
- painted white with black trim;
- exterior sign “St. John’s Anglican Church of Canada welcomes John’s Anglican Church of Canada welcomes You.’
Exterior character-defining elements of St. John’s Anglican Church relate to all pre-2001 and restored elements of Gothic architecture and include:
- central tower caped with pinnacles, enclosing bells;
- arched windows and doors;
- large arched window in centre of tower;
- pinnacles on perimeter of roof line on buttresses;
- side additions with gable ends.
Nearby in the register
- Solomon Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Lennox Tavernresidenceunder 1 mi
- Oldest Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Zion Lutheran Churchchurchunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.