Bay Meeting House and Vestry

Bay Meeting House and Vestry
Location Upper Bay and Steele Rds., Sanbornton, New Hampshire
Coordinates 43°32′17″N 71°32′12″W / 43.53806°N 71.53667°W / 43.53806; -71.53667Coordinates: 43°32′17″N 71°32′12″W / 43.53806°N 71.53667°W / 43.53806; -71.53667
Area 0.6 acres (0.24 ha)
Built 1836
Architectural style Federal, Gothic Revival
NRHP Reference # 84002508[1]
Added to NRHP June 07, 1984

The Bay Meeting House and Vestry is a historic church complex on Upper Bay and Steele Roads in Sanbornton, New Hampshire. The wood frame church was built in 1836 for a Baptist congregation, on a site which had held a church since 1808, and exhibits well-preserved transitional Federal-Gothic Revival style. It is a rectangular structure with a gable roof and a two-stage belfry tower above its main (eastern) facade. The main facade has three bays and is two stories in height, with doorways occupying the outer bays on the first floor, and rectangular sash windows in the other positions. The doorways are slightly recessed in molded frames with corner blocks. The gable pediment is flushboarded, with a semi-elliptical in its center. The long sides of the church are lined with Gothic pointed-arch windows. The vestry is a relatively modest rectangular structure, built in 1841 with enlargements in the early 20th century and again in the 1980s.[2]

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "NRHP nomination for Bay Meeting House and Vestry" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-08-01.


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