Breadalbane Presbyterian Church

• its rural setting

within open fields southwest of the community of Lenore

• the placement of the church on its site with

the entrance porch facing west

• the wood frame building at the south-east corner¿a rare surviving example

of a church stable

Key elements that define the exterior heritage character of the church include:

- the basic rectangular form with a medium-pitched wood-shingled gable roof

• the granite fieldstone walls,

with a mixture of cut and rubble stone laid mostly in courses, particularly at the front and sides; the stone courses emphasized by thin white lines laid in over the mortar joints; the two bottommost courses of squared blocks projecting slightly out from the wall to form a low water table; the angled half-height corner buttresses with three additional half-height buttresses on each side; the stone at the northeast corner reading ¿Breadalbane Church; AD 1898 C.B. Murphy¿; the lean-to stone porch at the west front, with entrance doorways at the south and north and a window in the west end

• the fenestration, with pointed

window openings highlighted with stone surrounds and simple gothic-style glazing pattern in clear glass

• the shingled gable ends of the church and the porch, featuring a pattern of alternating rows of curved

fishscale and diamond-tipped shingles, with a sunburst in the upper gables and a wooden ringed cross at each gable end, with the central circular portion pierced by a quatrefoil

Key elements that define the interior heritage character of the church include:

• the open space of the nave with white plastered

walls and ceiling, and tongue-and-groove unpainted wood wainscoting around the periphery, extended to form a pointed arch at the centre of the east end

• the organization of the space, with wooden pews arranged

three abreast with narrow aisles between them

• the raised chancel area with curved front, defined by

a wooden balustrade with turned spindles

• the dark-stained wood floor
• the original Gothic Revival-style

wood windows divided by wood muntins into four rectangular panes, with one upper pane sliding for ventilation, topped by a gothic arch divided into three panes; the deep window reveals clad in tongue-and-groove panelling;

the sills sloping down towards the floor; the simple wood casings of a design often found in domestic buildings of the period

• the simple entrance porch with its domestic detailing, its plaster walls and

its unpainted wainscoting