Jarvis Street Baptist Church

The present church was erected on Jarvis Street in 1875, with a large donation to the construction costs from the Canadian Senator and banker, William McMaster.

[1] The newly formed Baptist Union of Canada held its first meeting at Jarvis Street in October 1880.

'"[3] Less than 40 years later the same Convention passed a resolution calling for the dismissal of Jarvis St. and a number of other like-minded congregations during the "Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy".

[4] The congregation's past ministers include John Harvard Castle (1830–1890), who became pastor in 1873 (while at Bond St.) and later played an instrumental role in founding the Toronto Baptist College (later McMaster) serving as its first President and Professor of Systematic Theology and Christian Ethics.

[5] Benjamin Daniel Thomas (1843–1917) served from October 1881 to July 1903 and was once referred to as "the best-loved Baptist minister in Canada."

[7] A list of pastors:[8] The Jarvis Street Baptist Church was designed in the Gothic Revival style by the architectural firm of Henry Langley and Edmund Burke who served for many years at Jarvis Street Baptist Church as a Sunday-school teacher, chair of the choir committee, and deacon.

Triangular sets of small rosette windows are placed above every door to fill the space in between the entrance and the top of the arch.

The building has number of columns with slim tall shape and different capitals that are loosely based on a Corinthian order.

The capitals are made of gray stone while the columns are of a high quality bronze shaded granite found in St. George, New Brunswick.

A copper spire sits on top of the tower, adding approximately nine metres (30 ft) to the existing roof height.

The flat-roofed extension of the church, built after the 1938 fire, was constructed with red brick masonry which contrasts with the charred Queenston façade.

The interior of St. Andrew's, also designed by Langley and Burke, is said to resemble that of the original Jarvis Street Baptist Church.