St. John's Anglican Church (Lunenburg)

Original King's Chapel - disassembled and its lumber used to build St. John's

St. John's Church was built during the French and Indian War, using the wood salvaged from an older disassembled church building. When King's Chapel in Boston, Massachusetts, was expanded, its new stone structure was built around its original wooden church, which continued to be used. Then, when that new stone building was completed in 1754, King's Chapel's old wooden frame was disassembled from inside, removed through the new building's windows, and shipped to Lunenburg.[3] Early on 1 November 2001, St. John's church suffered significant damage by fire. It was restored and re-dedicated June 12, 2005.[4] During reconstruction a mystery emerged concerning numerous stars painted within the Church, and which subsequently garnered the interest of international media and astronomers, as the remarkable star scene may convey the night-sky on the first Christmas (some 2 millennia ago) as seen from Lunenburg.[5][6]

In 2005, the church contributed wood from a salvaged pew to the Six String Nation project. Parts of that material serve multiple functions within Voyageur, the guitar at the heart of the project,[7] including a back brace, a reinforcing strip and kerfing, all on the interior of the instrument.

Rev. Jean-Baptiste Moreau, lead statue by Arthur W. Schwartz, St. John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (c. 1935)

There are 18 people buried in the crypt. 7 people are under age 17. The notable interments include:

Rev. Roger Aitken (d. 1825), missionary at Lunenburg for Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (1817-1825), Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

• Rev. Jean-Baptiste Moreau (1753-1770);
• Rev. Robert Vincent (clergyman) (1762-1765)
• Rev. Paulus Bryzelius (1768-1773)
• Rev. Peter de la Roche (1771-1787), signed ransom agreement with American privateers in the Raid on Lunenburg (1782) and became first Anglican minister at Guysborough, Nova Scotia.[14][15]
• Rev. Richard Money (1787-1803)[16]
• Rev. Thomas Shreve (1804-1816)
• Rev. Roger Aitken (1817-1825)[17][18][19][20]
• Rev. James Cuppaidge Cochran (1825-1852), who supported the establishment of the Halifax School for the Deaf[21][22]

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  John Creighton Sr. monument by John Bacon, London
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  Plaque to John Creighton Jr. and his son John Creighton
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  Governor Michael Francklin's Bible (1765); originally owned by Rev. Robert Vincent, second minister of St. John's (.c. 1761)
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  The Jessen Bell (1814)
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  Jessen gave St. John's the silver chalice, flagon, and paten (1814)
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  Francis Rudolf, The Crypt
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  Rev. Thomas Shreve
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  Rectory, St. John's Anglican Church, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia (c 1824)

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