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Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church

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Location
  
Shore Road

Completed
  
1883

Reference no.
  
00PNS0124

Town or city
  
Baddeck

Designated as world heritage site
  
15 August 1990

Country
  
Canada

Structural system
  
Wood board and batten

Opened
  
1883

Construction started
  
1883

Architect
  
Simon Gibbons

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Architectural style
  
Gothic Revival architecture

Similar
  
Victoria County Court Ho, Gilbert H Grosvenor Hall, Telegraph House, Kidston Island Lighthouse, Uisge Ban Falls Provincial

Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church is an historic building in Baddeck, Nova Scotia. The church is one of only four remaining churches designed by Reverend Simon Gibbons, Canada's first Inuit priest. Built in 1883, the church is the second of six churches built by Gibbons in Nova Scotia.

It is believed that Gibbons first came into contact with the Cambridge Camden Society while building Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church. St. Peter's and St. John's was designated a Provincially Registered Property under the Heritage Property Act in 1990 due to its connection to Gibbons and because it best exemplifies the style of the Cambridge Camden society which advocated a return to simple Medieval styles. Typical of neo-Gothic architecture, the wooden church features buttresses, pointed arch windows, and a round-headed window on the east elevation.

The church continues to hold masses to this day.

References

Saint Peter's and Saint John's Anglican Church Wikipedia