Church of Our Lady of Good Hope | |
Coordinates: | 66.2519°N -128.6439°W |
Country: | Canada |
Denomination: | Roman Catholic |
Website: | Listing at Diocesan website |
Dedication: | Our Lady of Good Hope |
People: | Émile Petitot |
Status: | Mission |
Functional Status: | Active |
Heritage Designation: | National Historic Site of Canada |
Designated Date: | 1977 |
Architectural Type: | Carpenter Gothic |
Groundbreaking: | 1865 |
Completed Date: | 1885 |
Floor Count: | 1 |
Spire Quantity: | 1 |
Materials: | Wooden frame |
Archdiocese: | Grouard-McLennan |
Diocese: | Mackenzie-Fort Smith |
The Church of Our Lady of Good Hope (fr|Église Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Espérance) is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style Roman Catholic church building located on a bluff overlooking the Mackenzie River in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, Canada. Only 45by in size, it was built between 1865 and 1885 as a mission of the Oblate Fathers. Father Émile Petitot, "renowned ethnologist, linguist and geographer of the Canadian northwest" was a resident of the mission from 1864 to 1878.
The building's simple exterior, with its wooden siding, steep pitched roof, lancet windows and lancet entranceway under a steepled bell tower, make it a rather plain example of Carpenter Gothic style architecture, which belies the extraordinary painted decoration of its interior.[1]
The Church of Our Lady of Good Hope was designated a National Historic Site of Canada on June 6, 1977. The designation does not include the historic cemetery located to the left of the church building.