Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Centenary United Church
Upper Granville, Annapolis, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1792
- Decade built
- 1790-1799
- Notice of registration date
- 16 April 1987
- Civic address
- 7401 Highway 1
- Community
- Upper Granville
- County
- Annapolis
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 44.81178, -65.36493
- File number
- Prov_file_62
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
4 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 · St. John Co., N.B. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · County of Saint John, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, 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)
The Province of Nova Scotia's Registered Heritage Properties dataset ↗
The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
though remodelled about 1878, it is believed to be the oldest Methodist Church still standing in the nation.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of Centenary United Church relating to its Gothic Revival architecture include:
- rectangular form with a five-sided chancel;
- tall roof with steeply-pitched gable;
- major windows along the side elevations with pointed arches, heavy, moulded architraves and decorative wooden trancery pattern; same basic design is used in the chancel windows, and the smaller windows in the sides of the entrance porches and in the front facade;
- large rose window in the front;
- tracery pattern is basically composed of circles within a circle;
- front elevation with two entrance porches; one is much wider than the other;
- the smaller entrance has a single door with a pointed arch form and moulded architrave;
- the wider entrance is similar but has double doors, each door forming half of the pointed arch form;
- entrance porches with gable roofs, heavy cornice mouldings, incorporating an interesting cross profile, and a Latin cross at the peaks;
- mock wooden flying buttresses;
- a discreetly placed doorway at the rear of the chuch leading into the chancel.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.