Bangor Episcopal Church

Bangor Episcopal Church

Bangor Episcopal Church, July 2013
Location Northwestern corner of Main and Water Streets, Churchtown, Caernarvon Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°8′1″N 75°57′42″W / 40.13361°N 75.96167°W / 40.13361; -75.96167Coordinates: 40°8′1″N 75°57′42″W / 40.13361°N 75.96167°W / 40.13361; -75.96167
Area less than one acre
Built 1830, 1844, c. 1880
Architectural style Greek Revival, Gothic Revival
NRHP Reference # 87000664[1]
Added to NRHP April 30, 1987

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]

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

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  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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