St. Luke's Anglican Church - Pembina Crossing

St. Luke's Anglican Church-Pembina Crossing is a small, tidy wood frame church,

picturesquely set in the eastern area of the Pembina Hills south of the town of Manitou. The municipal

designation applies to the building and its spacious rural site and cemetery.

St. Luke's

Anglican Church-Pembina Crossing is the solitary remaining structure recalling the pioneer community

of Pembina Crossing. That settlement, formed in the early 1880s, was for a time a bustling commercial

centre, situated on the Boundary Commission Trail, an important settlement route leading into western

Canada. But like so many places in southern Manitoba, the community succumbed to the final location of

a railway line, which bypassed Pembina Crossing. The present 1922 church, which replaced the original

building from 1885, which burned, is an excellent example of the kind of small, dignified structures

that provided sanctuary for small rural congregations.

Source: R.M. of Pembina By-law No. 4/2011, 28

March 2011.

Key

elements that define the site character of St. Luke's Anglican Church-Pembina Crossing include:

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its rural location within open fields, with main doors facing north, and with a small cemetery behind

and to the south of the church building

Key elements that define the exterior heritage character of

the church include:

- the basic form, consisting of a simple rectangular plan with small entrance porch

on the north side and a medium-pitched gable roof

- the fenestration, consisting of two sets of small

paired windows on the side walls, rectangular in shape and set into articulated surrounds including cornice

top headers; and similarly treated windows on the end walls, in those cases consisting of round-arched

windows and with the chancel-end windows with three lights

- the use of wooden horizontal drop siding,

painted white, on all wall surfaces

Key elements that define the interior heritage character of the

church include:

- the clear open space with all wall surfaces sheathed with horizontal wooden siding;

including the truncated ceiling apex with diagonally oriented wooden sheathing, etc.

- the symmetrical

arrangement of the space to focus on the chancel and altar, with a central aisle and rows of wooden pews

on either side

-the wooden doors with surrounds and detailed top corner elements, etc.