Former Wesleyan Methodist Church - Burritts Rapids, Ontario
Posted by: 
elyob
N 44° 58.892 W 075° 47.725
18T E 437288 N 4981206
This is now a private residence. Please respect private property.
Waymark Code: WM1187V
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 09/04/2019
Views: 5
The building is located at 25 Centre Street, northeast of the corner of Centre Street and East Street. Please respect private property.
This Wesleyan Methodist Church building dates back to the 1850s. Like most of the Methodist congregations in Canada, the Burritts Rapids church joined the United Church of Canada in the 1920s.
The Ontario Heritage Trust describes the building as Carpenter's Gothic, rectangular, timber framed, with a central tower. However, that same organization lists the title as St James the Impossible Church. There never was a saint by that name.
Checking the United Church of Canada records at the central archives (City of Ottawa), when the Burritts Rapids United Church (also known as the Wesley United Church) closed in 1974, it was attached to the Oxford Mills United Church, Seaway Valley Presbytery. The archives has Burritts Rapids Methodist Church account books back as far as the 1890s. According to the Wesleyan Methodist Baptismal Register, Grenville County, 1836-1901 (2002), baptisms were taking place in Burritts Rapids as early as 1867.