First Sable River United Baptist Church

A Congregational chapel was built in Sable River sometime around 1842 and a Baptist church was organized there in 1856. The meeting house was a one-storey wood-framed building with a centred bell tower on the front gable end. The four-sided steeple with bell cast roof had a flat top with a decorative railing. There were three small dormers in the sides of the steeple and two arched windows in the sides of the tower. The gabled roof had a single chimney and along the sides were four arched windows set high up under the eaves. The building was surrounded by a low wooden fence that also enclosed the cemetery. This meeting house no longer stands.

When the Sable River congregation outgrew the original meeting house in May 1904, work began on a new building (pictured). On November 5, 1905 the new Sable River Baptist Church was dedicated.

Designed and built by Charles Robertson of Osborne, the building is a Gothic Revival style with a pointed tower and gothic windows. Flying buttresses adorn the corner boards while dentil and scallop trim decorate the openings. The roof has a steep pitch and the gables and parts of the tower have decorative shingle work. The tower is topped by a modest spire that is shingled in black.

The entrance to the sanctuary is at the pulpit end of the room. There are two aisles with seating on both sides of the room as well as down the centre. Brides entering the church must make a circuit of the church in order to walk down an aisle. The preacher is backlit by the attached gothic windows and the coloured glass of the rosette window above. A modern oil furnace was installed in the building in 1953, and the ornate iron gratings are still in place over the heating ducts.