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Four
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Bottle Collectors
Club
www.canadianbottlecollectors.com |
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Meetings |
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May 14, 2005 |
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Theme - Hornby products/small town Canada |
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We
held our meeting at St.
Stephen's Anglican Church Hornby,
Onatrio. St. Stephen's Church in Hornby, Ontario is
currently being considered for Part IV Designation under the Ontario
Heritage Act by the Congregation and Heritage Halton Hills LACAC. A draft
designation report can be viewed on the World Wide Web via HALINET and the
Halton Hills Public Library.
The Anglican Congregation organized in Hornby was the
first to serve Esquesing Anglicans. The actual building of the Church
began with the donation of one acre of land by John Cowin who left
Clonorah, County Tipperary, Ireland for Canada around 1831. The Cowin's
settled on a one-hundred acre farm granted by the Crown at Lot 15,
Concession 9, Trafalgar Township. The farm was called Rose Green, after a
village near Clonorah.
The building of St. Stephen's Church began with
assembling stocks of timber, lumber, stone and other materials in 1836.
St. Stephen's Church is composed of a main rectangular Knave having a
sloped gable end roof, with a projecting cubic form Bell Tower/Entrance
and a rectangular Chancel/Vestry addition to the east. The entire
structure is timber framed with painted pin clapboard siding. The front
elevation is composed of the Tower with a pointed arched entrance. The
interior of the main area of the Knave is symmetrical with pews on either
side of a centre aisle and a plaster circular arch describing the Chancel
area beyond. The ceiling is flat over the bulk of the Knave with sloping
side panels running the length of the Knave sides following the slope of
the roof.
The church typifies both a pioneer builder's
eclecticism and the transition between the Neoclassical and Gothic styles
of church buildings c.1830. An important design aspect of St. Stephen's is
its layout on the site. The building is oriented so that it's axis is true
west to east and therefore the building is skewed to the property lines.
This was not accidental but was in keeping with the Church of England's
symbolic tradition of congregations facing the Altar and the East. St.
Stephen's Church has been a landmark in the Hornby area for more than 150
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Our next meeting is June 18, 2005 |
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