St. Mary's and St. Albans Anglican Church

St.

Mary and St. Alban's Anglican Church is a handsome granite fieldstone church dramatically placed

in a rural setting west of the rural community of Kaleida. The municipal designation applies to the building

and its spacious grounds and cemetery to the rear of the church.

St. Mary

and St. Alban's Anglican Church is an exquisite example of a small rural church carried out in granite

fieldstone. Built in 1892 to the designs of a major Winnipeg architect, Charles Wheeler, the church was

constructed by Richard Steward and Harry Bowler, with carpentry assistance from Samuel Magee. The resulting

building is refined and sophisticated, not only in its exterior, where stones are expertly placed for

effect, but also inside, where rich wooden Gothic Revival details are lit with coloured glass from the

Winnipeg firm of Ernest Edgell. The church was dedicated to the memory of the Honourable William Winram,

a pioneer who represented the area for 13 years in the Manitoba Legislature beginning in 1878, and who

was Speaker of the House for three years.

Source: R.M. of Pembina By-law No. 3/2011, 28 March 2011.

Key

elements that define the site character of St. Mary and St. Alban's Anglican Church include:

- its

rural setting within open fields west of the community of Kaleida

- placement of the church on its site

with main doors facing west and with a related cemetery behind and to the east of the church building

Key

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

- the basic rectangular form

with a medium-pitched gable roof

- the granite fieldstone walls, with blocks expertly cut and shaped

and laid mostly in courses, and featuring large corner buttresses and a massive chimney at the rear as

well as the memorial stone at the northwest corner reading "WINRAM MEMORIAL A.D. 1892"

- the

fenestration, with pointed openings highlighted with stone surrounds, including the main door with its

tall transom light with simple arched wooden tracery

Key elements that define the interior heritage

character of the church include:

- the open space of the nave with bright white plastered walls and elaborate

wooden ceiling accented with diagonally patterned wooden insets and impressive hammerbeams, etc.

- the

organization of the space to focus on the chancel and altar, with wooden pews arranged on either side

of a wide central aisle

- the simple wooden rood screen, with pointed arch elements, separating the chancel

from the nave, with further separation defined by steps up to the chancel

- the various handcrafted wooden

religious features and articles, including the pulpit, hymn board, etc.