Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Covenanter Church
Grand Pre, Kings, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1811
- Decade built
- 1800-1809, 1810-1819
- Architect/designer
- Gillmore, George (Rev.)
- Notice of registration date
- 11 March 1988
- Civic address
- 1989 Grand Pre Road
- Community
- Grand Pre
- County
- Kings
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 45.09974, -64.30485
- File number
- Prov_file_73
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet ArchiveDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries
5 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)
- 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 Hants, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (Roe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive)
- 1879 · County of Colchester, Nova Scotia (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime Provinces) (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
- 1879 · Counties of Westmorland and Albert, New Brunswick (Roe Brothers Atlas of the Maritime… (David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is the oldest surviving Presbyterian Church in Canada and the fact that it is little altered from the date its steeple was erected in 1818.
Character-defining elements
Character-defining elements of the Covenanter Church relate to its New England meeting house style and include:
- two-and-a-half storeys;
- wood frame construction;
- rectangular plan form;
- steeply-pitched gable roof;
- end chimney on the north elevation;
- five-bay front façade;
- classical entablature supported by pilasters at the main entrance;
- wooden tower with a rondel window;
- octagonal belfry with domed roof;
- slender octagonal spire with three-balled metal finial and arrow weathervane.
Character-defining elements of the whole Covenanter Church property include:
- random-rubble stone wall surrounding the church and cemetery;
- mature trees throughout the cemetery;
- all grave stones and monuments, with their surviving inscriptions;
- grass-covered interment areas, and separate family burial plots enclosed with stone pillars and metal links, and cast-iron fencing.
Nearby in the register
- Borden Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Jeremiah Calkin Houseresidenceunder 1 mi
- Stewart HouseB&Bunder 1 mi
- GowanBraeresidenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.