MICROFICHE REFERENCE NUMBER: 66-02-65
STREET ADDRESS: Rockville Corner
CITY/TOWN/VILLAGE: Rockville
MUNICIPALITY: Yarmouth
COUNTY: Yarmouth
YEAR BUILT: 1843
PRESENT OWNER: Trustees: Rockville Baptist Church
ADDRESS: 1379 Chebogue Road
ORIGINAL OWNER: Trustees of Free Christian Baptist Church
SOURCES: Registry of Deeds; Micro: Places-Yarmouth-Scrapbooks
(Earle) P.A.N.S.; Yarmouth, Nova Scotia by George S. Brown (1888)
BUILDER: Members of congregation
ORIGINAL USE: Church
PRESENT USE: Church
ARCHITECTURAL COMMENT:
Greek Revival style church. Steeply pitched gable roof with front pediment broken by
centered projecting front tower and steeple; chimney at ridge near back end. Symmetrical
façade; centered door and window above have pedimented crowns; window near top of tower has
straight crown. Large windows have 9/9 glazing, small have 6/6. Wood construction, front
clad with clapboard, sides & back with shinges.
HISTORICAL COMMENT:
From Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, by G.S. Brown(1888) "The Rev. Charles Knowles, a disciple of
Rev. Jacob Norton, was ordained at Argyle in February 1831. The year previous he had conducted
religious services at Pubnico, and through his encouragemnet the people there began to build a
meeting-house. In February 1832, Mr. Knowles organized a Free-Baptist Church at Little River,
over which he was pastor for 25 years, and in 1833 he went to Kemptville, and there also founded
a church. A Free-Baptist meeting-house was built at Arcadia in 1835, and another at Chebogue
Point; and until his death at Tusket in 1877 Mr. Knowles exercised a fatherly supervision of the
Free-Baptist churches of the County."
CONTEXTUAL COMMENT:
Moved from original site in 1886. [Vinyl siding added in 1986 except for steeple, which
is still shingle clad.]
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BOOK PG: |
Trustees of Free
Christian Baptist Church |
May 20,
1843 |
Dec. 31,
1887 |
N/A |
Z 53 |
Trustees of Free
Baptist Church |
Dec. 31,
1887 |
Present |
N/A |
CV 612 |
COMMENTS ON HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS:
This church was built in 1843 on the Chebogue Point Road. In early May of 1886, it was
moved about a mile to its present site on the main road and "renovated and redecorated" by its
members on May 6. In December of 1887, James W. Killam, owner of the lot onto which the church
had been moved, sold the land to the Trustees for $29.00. Originally, this was called the Free
Christian Baptist Church, but is now, simply, the Rockville Baptist Church.
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