Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Goat Island Baptist Church
Upper Clements, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- c.1810
- Decade built
- 1810-1819
- Notice of registration date
- 6 May 1986
- Civic address
- 2340 Highway 1
- Community
- Upper Clements
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.68893, -65.59741
- File number
- Prov_file_49
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, 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)
- 1879 · County of Digby, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Saint John, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
is the oldest standing Baptist church in Canada.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Goat Island Baptist Church include:
- location facing Goat Island;
- wood frame construction;
- rectangular plan;
- open gable roof;
- Gothic Revival style windows;
- octagonal steeple rising off a square tower base;
- cornerboards with inset panels in a pointed arch shape;
- stone wall perimeter;
- wooden shingles on roof and steeple;
- Rev. Israel Potter memorial plaque.
Character-defining elements of the cemetery at Goat Island Baptist Church include:
- original and historic grave stones and monuments, with their surviving inscription stone for Rev. Potter;
- grass-covered interment areas.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.