Item - 2013.MM45.11

City Council on December 16, 17 and 18, 2013, adopted the following:

1.         City Council approve the following Revised List of Heritage Attributes for 2 Station Road, dated December 6, 2013:

REVISED LIST OF HERITAGE ATTRIBUTES

Heritage Attributes

The heritage attributes of the property at 2 Station Road are:

• The Wesley Mimico United Church building
• The placement, setting and orientation of the church building on the northwest corner of Station Road and Mimico Avenue
• The scale, form and massing of the long rectangular three-storey plan with the engaged transepts at the four corners and the narthex at the south end
• The materials, with brick cladding and brick, stone, wood and glass detailing
• The low-pitched gable roof with parapets, stone coping, and the clerestory with window openings
• On the principal (south) façade, the stepped frontispiece with stone and brick band courses and buttresses
• The main (south) entrance, where steps lead to a trio of round-arched openings, with a pair of wood doors with glass inserts and transoms in each opening
• Surmounting the south entry, the monumental round-arched opening that incorporates round and round-arched windows
• The fenestration on all elevations, with the round-arched and flat-headed window openings with brick trim, and the stained glass windows in some of the openings
• The buttresses on the east and west elevations that organize the pairs of window openings
• The square tower, which is located midway along the east elevation and has corbelled brickwork beneath a multi-side spire with gothic detailing (the original entrance to the church was on the east wall of the tower)