Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
St. Edward's Anglican Church
Clementsport, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1795
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Cultural association
- Loyalist, Dutch
- Notice of registration date
- 17 June 1986
- Civic address
- 34 Old Post Road
- Community
- Clementsport
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.66365, -65.60499
- File number
- Prov_file_50
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
an outstanding example of the successful melding of the colonial American meeting house style with pure classical detail, and its historical association with Loyalists of Dutch ancestry.
Character-defining elements
Exterior character-defining elements of Saint Edward's Anglican Church include:
- wood frame construction;
- rectangular plan;
- rectangular chancel;
- square bell tower capped with a squat, four-sided steeple;
- single doorway with shouldered architrave and a simple, closed pediment in the front façade;
- large, round-headed entrance with double doors and architrave and keystone on the south elevation;
- round-headed windows with moulded architrave and keystone;
- small oculus at the peak of the front façade;
- cemetery surrounding the church, with original grave markers.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.