Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
St. Mary's Anglican Church
Auburn, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1790
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Builder
- Jabex Benedict
- Cultural association
- British Colonial, Loyalist
- Notice of registration date
- 17 June 1986
- Civic address
- 20 Morden Road
- Community
- Auburn
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.01828, -64.86830
- File number
- Prov_file_51
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Lunenburg Co., N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Lunenburg Co., N.S. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1878 · St. John Co., N.B. (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)
- 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 considered to be architecturally outstanding because of its near perfect adaptation in wood of the monumental stone churches of English neo-classical architecture, and the close historical association with Charles Inglis, the first Anglican Bishop of Nova Scotia and in Canada.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Saint Mary's Anglican Church relating to its Neo-classical style elements include:
- wooden structure of the hall type plan;
- pediments and capitals;
- low-pitched roof;
- square tower with steeple and rose windows;
- round-headed windows;
- corner boards;
- Palladian window in sanctuary;
- round-headed wooden front door.
Other character-defining elements of St. Mary’s Anglican Church include all original and historic elements including:
- Gothic-shaped stained glass window inset in Palladian window in sanctuary;
- wooden widows containing original Colonial period glass;
- remaining original wooden roof shingles;
- wooden cladding;
- original Coats of Arms;
- two side gallery and vestry additions.
Character-defining elements of St. Mary's Anglican Church cemetery include:
- mature trees;
- original and historic grave stones and monuments, with their surviving inscriptions;
- grass-covered interment areas.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.