Windsor-West Hants
Joint Planning Advisory Committee

CHRIST CHURCH ANGLICAN 

The cornerstone of Christ Church was laid in 1882, and the first service held in March 1884.  Christ Church has played a significant role in the history of the Town of Windsor, the Province of Nova Scotia, and Canada as a whole, through its connections with Bishop Charles Inglis, who also founded King’s College and King’s College School (now King’s-Edgehill School), and parishioners such as Thomas Chandler Haliburton and Charles G.D. Roberts.

Christ Church is a fine example of Carpenter Gothic Revival architecture.  It also forms one of an interesting trio of buildings designed by Worcester, Mass. architect Stephen C. Earle.  The same plans were used to build Trinity Church in Digby, Nova Scotia, and St. Paul’s in Trinity, Newfoundland.  Christ Church was built by local contractor Joseph Taylor, using primarily locally harvested woods and hardware manufactured by Windsor Foundry Company.