A 130-year-old church in Ottawa’s Centretown neighbourhood could possibly be designated a heritage constructing attributable to its cultural heritage worth.
A report for the Constructed Heritage Committee recommends councillors subject a discover of intention to designate the McPhail Memorial Baptist Church on Bronson Avenue at Lisgar Avenue below Half IV of the Ontario Heritage Act.
The red-brick church was constructed in 1893, and continues to operate as a Baptist church.
Workers say the property was listed on the town’s Heritage Register in 2020. Adjustments to the Ontario Heritage Act by means of Ontario Invoice’s 23 and 200 will end result within the elimination of the property from the Heritage Register if council doesn’t subject a discover of intention to designate the property by Jan. 1, 2027.
The report for the Constructed Heritage Committee says the property meets 5 of the 9 standards to be designated a property of cultural heritage worth, together with for design worth as a novel instance of the Queen Anne Revival model with components of the Romanesque Revival model utilized in non secular buildings in Ottawa.
“The church at 249 Bronson Avenue evokes the Queen Anne Revival model by means of its nook tower, turret, gabled roof, repetitive dormers, and sash and leaded home windows,” employees say.
“The church at 249 Bronson Avenue additionally contains components of the Romanesque Revival model by means of its rectangular massing and rusticated stone lintels and sills.”
Workers say the church shows a “excessive degree of workmanship,” is instantly related to the expansion of the Baptist church in Ottawa and is “traditionally and functionally linked to its environment.”
“The expansion of this space of Centretown within the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries contributed to Bronson Avenue’s growth as a hub for institutional buildings, together with the Bronson Centre (previously Immaculata Faculty), the landmark Peace Tower Church (previously the Erskine Presbyterian Church), the Saint Vincent hospital, and Centennial Public Faculty,” employees say. “As a spot of worship, the church at 249 Bronson Avenue is traditionally and functionally linked to the institutional character of this space of Centretown.”
The property contains two buildings. Workers say the constructing at 251 Bronson Avenue is excluded from the designation.
