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James Baptist Church

Repurposed Church in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Jul 21 2014

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Recent status Repurposed
Location # 10769

James Baptist was designed by Joseph Connolly and built between 1878 and 1882. Connolly trained under architect James Joseph McCarthy, regarded as the "Irish Pugin" because he embraced the principles of church architecture laid down by the famed Gothic architect Augustus Welby Pugin.

James Street Baptist was the only non-Catholic church Connolly designed. One motivation for its impressive design was a friendly competition with St. Paul's Presbyterian Church on the other side of Jackson, which had set the bar high for architectural distinction.

80% demolished for new condos. I was watching this place for a while, I cannot find my exterior photos of this place but there are plenty if you search the internet and I know other members have some photos of this historical location hopefully they can add them

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avatar of mobileworks
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9 years ago

The developer conned the City or the City turned a blind eye.The City issued a building "minor alteration" permit, not a demolition permit and that works out to 80%? The City would have had to see the plans, NO?The developer kept calling this a restoration in the article. What purpose was making this a heritage building?

avatar of glueguy
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9 years ago

I'm all for preserving old churches. I'm against tearing down any building that is of historic or architectural significance. I believe there should be legislation that automatically protects them. The difficulty with that thinking is structures that have a large open space inside (like a church) have limited secondary use. Although I'm sad to see it go I'm happy the facade survives.

avatar of mobileworks
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9 years ago

good I, those pictures are hard to look at. Idiots. I saw the church on street view still. I couldn't see anything wrong with it. It's not particle board it was stone and brick. I thought we had laws against this. Ridiculous that this is rubble now.

avatar of Northof49
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9 years ago

Too bad it has to be demolished it`s a beautiful building.