Warren Baptist Church
Title
Warren Baptist Church
Church Name
Warren Baptist Church
Church Association
Cumberland Association
Province
Nova Scotia
County
Cumberland County
Address
56 Hastings Crossing Rd, Warren, Nova Scotia
Status
Active
Date
Built circa 1862
Historical Information
The Warren Baptist Church, built circa 1862, is a modest, wooden, one-storey country church built in the form of a traditional meeting house. The church sits on its original site at a bend in Route 6 on the rural east side of Amherst, Nova Scotia, and overlooks trees, farms, and fields.
The Warren Baptist Church is representative of a typical Baptist country church built in Cumberland County during the mid to late nineteenth century. The symmetrical, wooden church has a medium-pitched roof and a pedimented front gable. The characteristic symmetry is evident in the church’s three-bay façade and the three large rectangular windows that line each side of the boxy church. It was built in the meeting house tradition, and it is modestly and simply decorated with Classical Revival and Gothic Revival elements. Its Classical Revival temple-like architecture is adorned with a wide frieze, and heavy, prominent pilasters framing the two entries and acting as corner boards. Of note are the Gothic Revival subtle mouldings crowning every window, and the diamond-shaped tracery decorating the triangular window in pedimented front gable. The triangular shape of this window is echoed in the pointed arch above the two front entries, and the upper edges of the three triangles are accentuated with scalloped bargeboard.
Information from Canada Historic Places
The Warren Baptist Church is representative of a typical Baptist country church built in Cumberland County during the mid to late nineteenth century. The symmetrical, wooden church has a medium-pitched roof and a pedimented front gable. The characteristic symmetry is evident in the church’s three-bay façade and the three large rectangular windows that line each side of the boxy church. It was built in the meeting house tradition, and it is modestly and simply decorated with Classical Revival and Gothic Revival elements. Its Classical Revival temple-like architecture is adorned with a wide frieze, and heavy, prominent pilasters framing the two entries and acting as corner boards. Of note are the Gothic Revival subtle mouldings crowning every window, and the diamond-shaped tracery decorating the triangular window in pedimented front gable. The triangular shape of this window is echoed in the pointed arch above the two front entries, and the upper edges of the three triangles are accentuated with scalloped bargeboard.
Information from Canada Historic Places
Collection
Citation
“Warren Baptist Church,” Atlantic Baptist Built Heritage Project , accessed March 29, 2024, https://atlanticbaptistheritage.omeka.net/items/show/182.