Kamloops Heritage Register - City of Kamloops

CITY OF KAMLOOPS HERITAGE REGISTER 2007-2008
Furthermore, the Church is a significant surviving example of the work of architect, civil
engineer and surveyor Robert Henry Lee (1859-1935), who moved to Kamloops from the United
States in 1884, and remained here for the rest of his life. Lee was responsible for laying out the
townsites of Nicola, Merritt and Princeton, and produced architectural designs for numerous
residences, a Roman Catholic Church, a branch for the Bank of B.C. and this church. His
architectural accomplishments in this frontier community were prodigious. Lee also became
active in civic affairs, was elected to the first Kamloops Council in 1893, then served as mayor
from 1894-1896.
Character-Defining Elements
Key elements that define the heritage character St. Andrew’s on the Square include its:
- corner location in downtown Kamloops on Seymour Street at Second Avenue
- continuous use as a public facility
- ecclesiastical form, scale and massing as expressed by its steeply pitched cedar-shingled crossgabled
roof with open eaves, detailed mouldings and notched whalebone bargeboards; square
corner tower with entryway; and steeple with gabled louvered vents, fishscale shingles
decorative metal cap and vane
- wood-frame construction, with original wooden drop siding with cornerboards and scrollcut
trim
- late Victorian vernacular Gothic Revival detailing, such as wooden tracery in Gothic pointedarch
windows and stepped buttresses
- interior features including a vaulted ceiling with a checkerboard of diagonally-patterned
wooden panelling
-associated landscape features such as public square and mature deciduous trees
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