Bangor Episcopal Church Explained

Bangor Episcopal Church
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:Northwestern corner of Main and Water Streets, Churchtown, Caernarvon Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates:40.1336°N -75.9617°W
Built:1830, 1844, c. 1880
Architecture:Greek Revival, Gothic Revival
Added:April 30, 1987
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:87000664

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.[1]

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

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania. CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Searchable database. February 18, 2012. July 21, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070721014609/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp. dead. Note: This includes Web site: [{{NRHP-PA|H070877_01H.pdf}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Bangor Episcopal Church]. 2012-02-18. Mary Wiley Myers. PDF. December 1986.