Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery (Cambridge, Maryland)

Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery is an historic Episcopal church and cemetery located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland U.S.A.

Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery
Christ Episcopal Church in 2014
Location601 Church St., Cambridge, Maryland U.S.A.
Coordinates38°34′19″N 76°4′36″W
Area2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built1883 (1883)
ArchitectCassell, Charles F.
Architectural styleGothic Revival
NRHP reference No.84001767[1]
Added to NRHPApril 12, 1984

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]

Notable interments
18th century burial at Christ Episcopal Church

Maryland governors

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References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 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
  3. Geoffrey B. Henry (November 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
  4. 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 978-0-8018-5980-9.
  5. http://www.collinsfactor.com/families/sulivanej.htm
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