King's College Chapel, Halifax

The King’s College Chapel is the Anglican chapel of the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It traces its origins to the 1789 founding of King’s College (then in Windsor) by Bishop Charles Inglis and Loyalists, the first chartered university in British North America. For its first century the college had no purpose-built chapel; religious services were held in campus halls or the local parish church. In 1877 the Hensley Memorial Chapel was erected on the original Windsor campus (named for Rev. J. M. Hensley). That stone Gothic Revival chapel (now part of King's-Edgehill School) exemplifies the high-church Anglican tradition of the time (it features Romanesque windows, steep gables, and a rose window). After a fire in 1920 destroyed King’s College’s Windsor campus, the college affiliated with Dalhousie University and moved to Halifax. Fundraising in the late 1920s made possible a new campus. The present King’s College Chapel, designed by Andrew R. Cobb, was built on Coburg Road in Halifax and consecrated on 2 October 1930 by Archbishop Clarendon Worrell.