Gothic Revival

Pointed arches, steep gables, lancet windows and tracery inspired by medieval Gothic architecture.

Historic places
1,080Historic places
Built
1754–2004Built
Provinces and territories
12Provinces and territories

Recognized by

  • National 92
  • Provincial 291
  • Municipal 697
Photographs from the register, credited on each place’s page.

Where they are

  • Nova Scotia196
  • Ontario177
  • New Brunswick135
  • Prince Edward Island124
  • Saskatchewan105
  • Manitoba91
  • Quebec86
  • Newfoundland and Labrador82
  • British Columbia63
  • Alberta18
  • Yukon2
  • Northwest Territories1

Towns with the most

Built over time

The most were built in the 1870s: 124 of the 894 with a known date.

The oldest

  1. 1754St. John's Anglican ChurchLunenburg, Nova Scotia
  2. 1754St. John's Anglican Church National Historic Site of CanadaLunenburg, Nova Scotia
  3. 1760Site du patrimoine de Saint-NicolasLévis, Quebec

The register gives no construction date for 186 of these places.

Who designed them

The register names an architect or designer for 371 of these 1,080 places. These names come up most often.

Names marked ↗ open their entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Architects in Canada, 1800–1950.

  1. J.H.G. Russell (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  2. William Critchlow Harris (biography, opens in a new tab)7 places
  3. Thomas Fuller (biography, opens in a new tab)6 places
  4. Frank Wills (biography, opens in a new tab)5 places
  5. David Stirling (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places
  6. Matthew Stead (biography, opens in a new tab)4 places

All 1,080 places

Often found together

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