St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Earleville, Maryland)
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St. Stephen's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church
located at Earleville
, Cecil County, Maryland
. The church has a single-story rectangular stuccoed brick main block, three bays by three, resting on a partially excavated fieldstone
foundation and covered by a steeply pitched slate
roof. The church features a 4-story bell tower
with broach spire and patterned slate roof. This Gothic Revival structure was built in 1870–1874 but incorporated the walls of the earlier churches of 1824 and 1735. A graveyard surrounds the structure. The structure was designed by Thomas Dixon
, a Baltimore architect. North Sassafras Parish, as it was originally known, was one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1982.
Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church is a mainline Anglican Christian church found mainly in the United States , but also in Honduras, Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, the British Virgin Islands and parts of Europe...
located at Earleville
Earleville, Maryland
Earleville is an unincorporated community in Cecil County, Maryland, United States.Located at Earleville and listed on the National Register of Historic Places are: Bohemia Farm, Mount Harmon, Rose Hill, and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.-External links:*...
, Cecil County, Maryland
Cecil County, Maryland
Cecil County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of the Delaware Valley. It was named for Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore , who was the first Proprietary Governor of the colony of Maryland from 1632 until his death in 1675. The county seat is Elkton. The newspaper...
. The church has a single-story rectangular stuccoed brick main block, three bays by three, resting on a partially excavated fieldstone
Fieldstone
Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...
foundation and covered by a steeply pitched slate
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. The result is a foliated rock in which the foliation may not correspond to the original sedimentary layering...
roof. The church features a 4-story bell tower
Bell tower
A bell tower is a tower which contains one or more bells, or which is designed to hold bells, even if it has none. In the European tradition, such a tower most commonly serves as part of a church and contains church bells. When attached to a city hall or other civic building, especially in...
with broach spire and patterned slate roof. This Gothic Revival structure was built in 1870–1874 but incorporated the walls of the earlier churches of 1824 and 1735. A graveyard surrounds the structure. The structure was designed by Thomas Dixon
Thomas Dixon (architect)
Thomas Dixon , was a Presbyterian architect born in Wilmington, Delaware and one of the founders of the Baltimore chapter of AIA. He was the father of minister Thomas Freeman Dixon, an 1893 graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1871 he partnered with Charles L...
, a Baltimore architect. North Sassafras Parish, as it was originally known, was one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1982.
External links
- St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Cecil County, including photo from 1968, at Maryland Historical Trust