Bangor Episcopal Church

Bangor Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church complex located at Churchtown, in Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The church was built in 1830, and is a 1 1/2-story, brownstone rectangular building in the Gothic Revival style. It has a steep, slate covered gable roof and steeple added about 1880. It features Gothic arch art glass windows. The complex includes the frame school building. It is a one-story, three bay building built in 1844 in the Greek Revival style. Also on the property is a contributing cemetery with approximately 325 graves dated from the Revolutionary War to the present.[2]

Bangor Episcopal Church
Bangor Episcopal Church, July 2013
LocationNorthwestern corner of Main and Water Streets, Churchtown, Caernarvon Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°8′1″N 75°57′42″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1830, 1844, c. 1880
Architectural styleGreek Revival, Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.87000664[1]
Added to NRHPApril 30, 1987

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

  • Interior in 1946
  • Exterior in 1946
  • Church school building

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Mary Wiley Myers (December 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Bangor Episcopal Church" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-02-18.
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