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 Port Medway Meeting House - Port Medway, Nova Scotia Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 44° 07.532 W 064° 34.003
20T E 374654 N 4887008
Built in 1832 by a Baptist congregation organized in 1825, over the years this meeting house also served Wesleyan and United Church of Canada congregations.
Waymark Code: WMP708
Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
Date Posted: 07/11/2015
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Owned by the Free Will Baptist church from 1832 to 1865, it was sold that year to the Wesleyan Methodist Church. With Church Union in Canada, this meeting house became a United Church. It is one of the few meeting house style religious buildings left in Nova Scotia.
It's not known when last the meeting house held religious services. In 1988 it was declared a Provincial Heritage Property and is currently under the care of the Port Medway Heritage Society.
This sign, relating a glimpse into the building's history, is mounted on the front wall of the meeting house.
Meeting House
1832
This meeting house was built in 1832 by the Free Will Baptists of Port Medway. In 1865 it had been sold to the Wesleyan Methodist Church (later the United Church of Canada). In 1988, after 156 years as a place of worship, it was declared a Provincial Heritage Property and is currently in the care of the Port Medway Heritage Society.
Port Medway Meeting House
DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE
The Port Medway Meeting House is a small, domestic-like wood framed building, erected in 1832 by the Port Medway Free Will Baptist congregation. It is located at the mouth of the Port Medway River in Port Medway, NS. Both the land and the building are included in the Provincial designation
HERITAGE VALUE
The Port Medway Meeting House is valued for its age; as one of only a handful of small meeting houses left in Nova Scotia; for its continuous use as a place of worship; and for its relatively unaltered interior and exterior.
The Free Will Baptists of Port Medway organized a congregation in 1825 and had a formal meeting house built by 1832. Free Will Baptists evolved from the Congregational New Lights movement of the late eighteenth century in New England, brought to Nova Scotia by immigrants from New England. The Port Medway Meeting House was used by the local Free Will Baptist congregation until 1865 when it was sold to the Wesleyan Methodist Church, which became the United Church of Canada in 1925.
The Port Medway Meeting House is a relatively unchanged simple wood famed building with a domestic exterior appearance, one of only a few unaltered meeting houses in the province. The interior arrangement of the pews, whereby they face out from the walls and are parallel to the central aisle is a unique feature of the Port Medway Meeting House.
CHARACTER-DEFINING ELEMENTS
Character-defining elements of the Port Medway Meeting House relate to its relatively unaltered appearance and include:
- simple, unadorned façade;
- original pews arranged facing out from walls and parallel to central aisle;
- locally made and original iron work;
- gable roof;
- wood frame;
- wooden siding.
From Historic Places Canada
Date the Church was built, dedicated or cornerstone laid: 01/01/1832
Age of Church building determined by?: Other reliable source
If denomination of Church is not part of the name, please provide it here: Baptist - Wesleyan - United Church of Canada
Street address of Church:
162 Long Cove Road
Port Medway, NS Canada
B0J 2T0
Secondary Website for Church or Historic Church Building: [Web Link]
If Church is open to the public, please indicate hours: Not listed
If Church holds a weekly worship service and "all are welcome", please give the day of the week: Not listed
Indicate the time that the primary worship service is held. List only one: Not Listed
Primary website for Church or Historic Church Building: Not listed
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