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CHRIST CHURCH

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1867–1869. 220 Owensville Rd.
  • (Photograph by Alexander Heilner)
  • (Photograph by Alexander Heilner)
  • (Photograph by Alexander Heilner)
  • (Photograph by Alexander Heilner)
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Christ Church originated as St. James-the-Less, a chapel of ease for St. James’s Anglican parish. A decade later in 1862, St. James-the-Less had grown enough to become an independent new parish named Christ Church. The parishioners started construction on a replacement church in 1867, selecting a Carpenter Gothic design that closely recalls plans for parish churches published by architect Richard Upjohn in Rural Architecture (1852). The church is charmingly picturesque with board-and-batten siding, stained glass lancet windows, and steep shingled roof and slender bell tower. The long, narrow nave of the church is entered from the side and spanned by a wood scissor truss ceiling. An adjacent Sunday school building built in the 1930s and expanded in the 1950s continues the Carpenter Gothic theme.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie
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Timeline

  • 1867

    Built

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Citation

Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie, "CHRIST CHURCH", [West River, Maryland], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MD-01-WS88.

Print Source

Buildings of Maryland, Lisa Pfueller Davidson and Catherine C. Lavoie. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2022, 82-82.

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