CALEB NICKERSON
SHAWVILLE March 10, 2021
A Shawville man is looking to uncover some history surrounding an old window that used to adorn the original St. Paul’s Anglican Church.
Allan Dean was given the old window in March 2019, and painstakingly removed all the old glass over the course of nine months.
Though he is unable to confirm it, he believes the window is from . . .
the original church, which sat in what is now the cemetery that sits across from the current building. Construction began on the old church in 1840 and continued until 1855 when it was consecrated, but services had been held there since 1842.
“The church was described as a plain, unornamented, clapboard frame building, with great gothic arched windows, a gallery across the west end, no east window, a corner of the east end was partitioned off for a vestry, a somewhat lofty pulpit which you entered from the vestry, and a tower at the West end which entry was made into the church,” Dean wrote in an email.
The church was used for the last time in January 1878, and demolished in 1880.
The cutting, and insertion of the new stained glass started in September 2019 and was finally completed on New Year’s Day 2021. Dean said that he was hoping some residents or amateur historians in the area could help him uncover more information about the old church, in order to confirm the origin of his window.
“I have all the history on it, but I need a picture to prove that that window came out of that church,” he said.
Anyone with more information on the building can contact editor@theequity.ca to pass on any tips to Dean.
