Provincial Registry of Heritage Property · Nova Scotia
Gavelton Meeting House
Gavelton, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
The record
- Designation
- Provincially registered heritage property
- Type
- church
- Year built
- 1842
- Decade built
- 1840-1849
- Cultural association
- Loyalist
- Notice of registration date
- 15 June 1988
- Civic address
- Lake Vaughan Road, Lot 2A
- Community
- Gavelton
- County
- Yarmouth
- Province
- Nova Scotia
- Country
- Canada
- Coordinates
- 43.89726, -65.94906
- File number
- Prov_file_80
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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesRoe Brothers, Atlas of the Maritime Provinces (1879) / Internet Archive
2 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1878 map "Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1878 · Yarmouth, Shelburne counties, N.S. (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)
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The Province's registration record
Reason for registration
it is one of two (the other is the Barrington Meeting House) of this size remaining in the Province, and the fact that it has always been used as a meeting house, and it is largely unaltered.
Character-defining elements
Character defining elements of the Gavelton Meeting House include:
- two-and-a-half storey, wood construction;
- New England Meeting House style, but built on a front gable plan;
- symmetrically arranged twelve-paned windows on all four sides;
- triangular window with moulding centred in front gable end at attic level;
- Romanesque window on the rear gable end, positioned between the rectangular windows at the second floor level;
- dentils under eaves on ridge walls;
- double-door entrance with entablature;
- classical decorative cornerboards designed to resemble pilasters with capital;
- cemetery on each side (east and west) of the meeting house;
- terraced, elevated lot.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.