Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery (Cambridge, Maryland)
Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery | |
 Christ Episcopal Church in 2014 | |
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| Location | 601 Church St., Cambridge, Maryland U.S.A. |
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| Coordinates | 38°34′19″N 76°4′36″W / 38.57194°N 76.07667°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| Built | 1883 |
| Architect | Cassell, Charles F. |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 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, United States.
History[edit]
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]
Notable interments[edit]
Maryland governors[edit]
- John Henry (1797–98)
- Charles Goldsborough (1819)
- Henry Lloyd (1885–88)
- Phillips Lee Goldsborough (1912–16)
- Emerson C. Harrington (1916–20).[4]
Other[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Middleton, the Rev. Canon Arthur Pierce, Ph.D., Anglican Maryland, 1692-–1792, Virginia Beach: The Donning Company, 1992, 5 63-103, ISBN 0-89865-841-1
- ^ Geoffrey B. Henry (November 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
- ^ Arnett, Earl; Brugger, Robert J.; Papenfuse, Edward C. (1999). Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line State. The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 401. ISBN 978-0-8018-5980-9.
- ^ "East New Market".
External links[edit]
- Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Dorchester County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Christ Episcopal Church website
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- Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
- Churches completed in 1884
- 19th-century Episcopal church buildings
- Episcopal church buildings in Maryland
- Gothic Revival church buildings in Maryland
- Anglican cemeteries in the United States
- Churches in Dorchester County, Maryland
- Cambridge, Maryland
- National Register of Historic Places in Dorchester County, Maryland
- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland