THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON

 

BY-LAW NUMBER 31-1984

 

A By-law to designate property located at 5800 Guelph Line, Part Lot 5, Concession 3, New Survey, in the City of Burlington, Lowville United Church as property having historical and architectural value and interest pursuant to the Ontario Heritage Act.

 

WHEREAS by Section 29(6)(a) of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1980, chapter 337 as amended, the Council of a Municipality shall pass a by-law designating property to be of historical and architectural value and interest where no Notice of Objection to the designation has been served on the City Clerk within 30 days after the date of first publication of the Notice of Intention to designate in a newspaper having general circulation in the Municipality;

 

AND WHEREAS Notice of Intention to designate the property located at 5800 Guelph Line was published in a local newspaper and served on the owners of the property and on The Ontario Heritage Foundation by Registered Mail;

 

AND WHEREAS the reasons for the said designation are set out in Schedule "A" attached hereto and forming part of this By-law;

 

AND WHEREAS no Notice of Objection was served on the City Clerk of the City of Burlington.

 

NOW THEREFORE THE COUNCIL OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF BURLINGTON HEREBY ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:

 

1.  THAT the property located at 5800 Guelph Line, more particularly described in Schedule "B" attached hereto and forming part of this By-law be designated as being of architectural and historical value and interest.

 

2. THAT the City Clerk be directed to cause a Notice of this By-law to be published in a local newspaper having general circulation in the Municipality.

 

3. THAT the City Clerk be directed to cause a certified copy of this By-law to be served upon the owners of 5800 Guelph Line, Lowville United Church and upon The Ontario Heritage Foundation.

 

4. THAT this By-law shall take effect on the date of its registration in the Land Registry Office for the Registry Division of Halton No. (20).

 

 

ENACTED AND PASSED this 26th day of March 1984.

 

 

MAYOR: ______________________________________

 

 

CITY CLERK: __________________________________

 

 

SCHEDULE "A"

 

REASONS FOR THE DESIGNATION

 

The exterior of this property is recommended for conservation as property having historical and architectural value and interest by the Local Architectural Conservation Advisory Committee of the City of Burlington.

 

First evidence of a church on the site was noted in an official magazine of the Wesleyan Methodist Church entitled the "Christian Guardian" of a meeting held in Colling's Church on January 13, 1833 at Lowville.  In 1846, Joseph Colling deeded the Church and one-eighteenth of an acre of land to the Wesleyan Methodist Church for 5 shillings to be held in trust by Henry Foster, Thomas Colling, George McCay and Charles Peer.  It is interesting to note that the descendents of the trustees are still active in Lowville united Church and the descendents of Joseph Colling still reside on property originally owned by him. In 1855, the Colling's Church was named "Lowville Wesleyan Methodist Church" and by 1873, services were being held in the present brick church which took the place of the original frame building.

 

The Church is an example of the Vernacular Gothic Revival buildings, typical of Ecclesiastical architecture in Ontario.  The building is executed in typical orange brick from the Bronte area and trimmed with limestone sills and skewbacks.

 

Windows are pointed-arch, lancet, gothic, and crowned by a corbelled "eyebrow" detail, which forms a teardrop truncating in limestone skewbacks.

 

The front gable of the rectangular nave is highlighted by a cluster of three pointed-arch window and a bell cote crown the roof ridge.  The simple eaves are terminated in a corbelled dentil pattern.  Subtle buttresses tie down the front corners of the structure and are resounded along the sides by corbelled pilasters.

 

 

SCHEDULE "B"

 

ALL AND SINGULAR that certain parcel or tract of land and premises, situate, lying and being in the City of Burlington, in the Regional Municipality of Halton, formerly in the Town of Burlington, in the County of Halton, being composed of that part of the East half of Lot Number Five (5) in the 3rd Concession, New Survey of the Geographic Township of Nelson, more particularly described as Part 2 according to Reference Plan 20R-2075 deposited in the Land Registry Office for the Registry Division of Halton (No. 20).