- Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery (Cambridge, Maryland)
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Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery
Location: 601 Church St., Cambridge, Maryland U.S.A. Coordinates: 38°34′19″N 76°4′36″W / 38.57194°N 76.07667°WCoordinates: 38°34′19″N 76°4′36″W / 38.57194°N 76.07667°W Built: 1883 Architect: Cassell, Charles F. Architectural style: Gothic Revival Governing body: Private NRHP Reference#: 84001767
[1]Added to NRHP: April 12, 1984 Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery is an historic Episcopal church and cemetery located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland U.S.A.
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History
Christ Church is the parish church of Great Choptank Parish, founded in 1692 as one of the List of original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland.[2]
The church structure, designed by noted Baltimore architect Charles E. Cassell and built between 1883 and 1884, is a large Gothic Revival stone structure of green serpentinite stone on a cruciform plan. The adjoining cemetery is enclosed on three sides by a brick wall, and burials therein date from 1674 to the present. Church parishioners included five governors of Maryland, a state Attorney General, an Ambassador to the Netherlands, local judges and lawyers and several U.S. Congressmen, where most are buried.[3]
Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]
Noteable Interments
18th century burial at Christ Episcopal Church
Maryland governors
- John Henry (1797-98)
- Charles Goldsborough (1819)
- Henry Lloyd (1885-88)
- Phillips Lee Goldsborough (1912-16)
- Emerson C. Harrington (1916-20).[4]
Other
- Robert Goldsborough-delegate to the Continental Congress.
- William A. Sulivane-State Boundary Commissioner for Dorchester County (appointed 1865). Grandson of James Sulivane.[5]
- Congressman Daniel Maynadier Henry
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html.
- ^ Middleton, the Rev. Canon Arthur Pierce, Ph.D., Anglican Maryland, 1692-1792, Virginia Beach: The Donning Company, 1992, 5 63-103, ISBN 0898658411
- ^ "Maryland Historical Trust". Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Dorchester County. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-11-21. http://www.mht.maryland.gov/nr/NRDetail.aspx?HDID=792&COUNTY=Dorchester&FROM=NRCountyList.aspx?COUNTY=Dorchester.
- ^ Arnett, Earl; Brugger,Robert J., Papenfuse, Edward C. (March 22, 1999). Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line State. The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 401. ISBN 978-0801859809.
- ^ http://www.collinsfactor.com/families/sulivanej.htm
External links
- Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Dorchester County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Christ Episcopal Church website
U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Maryland Lists by county Allegany • Anne Arundel • Baltimore County • Calvert • Caroline • Carroll • Cecil • Charles • Dorchester • Frederick • Garrett • Harford • Howard • Kent • Montgomery • Prince George's • Queen Anne's • Somerset • St. Mary's • Talbot • Washington • Wicomico • Worcester
Lists by city Other lists Categories:- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- Religious buildings completed in 1884
- 19th-century Episcopal church buildings
- Episcopal churches in Maryland
- Churches in Dorchester County, Maryland
- Maryland Registered Historic Place stubs
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