First Baptist Church

Oxford Street – Halifax, Nova Scotia

Engineering investigation and restoration of exterior stone masonry walls.

Owner and Client: First Baptist Church Halifax

Scope of Cowie 1996/1997 Restoration Included the following:

  • Strengthened walls of bell tower.
  • Repointed and grouted all stone masonry walls of church, bell tower, and church hall.
  • Removed existing deteriorated louvres of bell tower and replaced with new louvres.
  • Restored the timber roof joists of the bell tower and the floor joists of the bell floor within the bell tower.
  • New roofing for bell floor of bell tower.
  • New access to bell tower, including new floor throughout lower region of bell tower.