St. George’s Anglican Church
Glenora

Designation Date: September 8, 1987
Designation Authority: The R.M. of Argyle
Present Owner: Glenora Historical Society

Church buildings are one of the proudest architectural achievements of the various groups that settled Manitoba in the late nineteenth century. The church was a tie to the homeland, an expression of faith, but also a repository of tradition. Ontario settlers practising their Anglican faith in the Marringhurst area built their church in 1889, under the direction of George Stewart of Dry River. Architecturally, the church is a simple form—a box with a gable roof—but the congregation still found opportunity to express their heritage. The windows are its glory. The delicate pointed windows set into rectangular frames capped with complex mouldings are a loving display of the Gothic Revival style, the traditional architecture of Anglicanism. In 1926 the building was moved to its present site in Glenora.