Address: 353 Sherbourne St Toronto Ontario M5A 2S3 Canada
Property Description: Church with 2 cornerstones: 1871, 1888 The 1871 comer stone refers to the Carlton Street Wesleyan Methodist Church built in 1871 with architects Smith &Gemmell with foundations of 72' by 54'. Plain brick building in the Gothic
Building Name: St. Luke's United Church
Original Architect: Langley & Burke
Original Occupancy Date: 1887
Original Occupant: Sherboume Methodist Church
Assessment Rolls: - 1888 - St. Thomas Word Methodist Church , Tustees of Sherboume Methodist Church lot 112 x 194 Value $8960. 2 storey stone 36' x 96' val $50,000, Value of for real property $58,960 tax excempt
Other Archival Sources: John Ross Robertson - Landmarks of Toronto vol. 4 pade 363 Article - Growth in Industrial City of Toronto - Toronto vanishing Church Buildings Urban Directory Review xxl 11 No 2 March 1945 pages 3-20 United Church Archives , 95 St. Charles Street - book
Land Use: Institutional
Building Type: with a front porch built on heavily buttressed foundation to allow for the construction of a tower. 1876 it became Sherboume Mthodist Church then in 1886 an entirely new church was built with official opening in 1888.
Height: 2 round towers, one at 100 ft at north west comer, other 72 ft at S E comer Church 1 floor
Materials: grey Credit Valley stone with Ashlar tr im to openings
Doors: round-arched, decorated carving and pilastered. wood glazed and transomed in tympanum
Windows: round-arched , Romanesque tracery. Three Monumental windows in west gable
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