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This pioneer church is surrounded by a white picket fence and a perfectly green field. Interestingly, the church was constructed using every type of wood found in Muskoka and was exhibited at the Chicago World Fair in the 1890s. The baptismal font is hand-carved by William Morgan. The church is still heated by a pot-bellied stove and contains the original organ (paid for by a local man who knitted socks for lumberjacks in return for contributions to the organ fund). Community members installed the friezes and doors as part of a church reconstruction project that happened in 1996.
The church was deconsecrated in 2010 and many of the interior furnishings and elements have been removed. The group wants to turn the historical building into a community centre and host events there. The creation of the Newholm Community Heritage Centre and Friends of Holy Trinity Newholm began last fall with the sole aim of preserving the church. Concerns about the fate of the church were raised last year after memorial stained glass windows were removed from the building and replaced by plywood, leaving damaged window frames behind. Before the group can buy the building, the cemetery that surrounds it must be severed off, according to the Cemeteries Act.
The simple single room church plan executed in white painted siding, is augmented by its steeply pitched roof and the hexagonal end giving a graceful shape to the end of the roof, the entrance and a small wing also have steeply pitched roofs, but springing from a lower point, secondary to the main space.
