Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery (Cambridge, Maryland)
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Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery is an historic Episcopal
church and cemetery located at Cambridge
, Dorchester County, Maryland
U.S.A.
The church structure, designed by noted Baltimore architect Charles E. Cassell
and built between 1883 and 1884, is a large Gothic Revival stone structure of green serpentinite
stone on a cruciform
plan. The adjoining cemetery is enclosed on three sides by a brick wall, and burials therein date from 1674 to the present. Church parishioners included five governors of Maryland, a state Attorney General, an Ambassador to the Netherlands, local judges and lawyers and several U.S. Congressmen, where most are buried.
Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1984.
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...
church and cemetery located at Cambridge
Cambridge, Maryland
Cambridge is a city in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 12,326 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Dorchester County and the county's largest municipality...
, Dorchester County, Maryland
Dorchester County, Maryland
Dorchester County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland on its Eastern Shore. It is bordered by the Choptank River to the north, Talbot County to the northwest, Caroline County to the northeast, Wicomico County to the southeast, Sussex County, Delaware, to the east, and the Chesapeake...
U.S.A.
History
Christ Church is the parish church of Great Choptank Parish, founded in 1692 as one of the List of original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland.The church structure, designed by noted Baltimore architect Charles E. Cassell
Charles E. Cassell
- Biography :He was born in Portsmouth, Virginia and trained as a naval architect. He received a degree in engineering from the University of Virginia at age 15. During the Civil War he served as a captain in the engineers corps, under General George Pickett of the Confederate States Army. After...
and built between 1883 and 1884, is a large Gothic Revival stone structure of green serpentinite
Serpentinite
Serpentinite is a rock composed of one or more serpentine group minerals. Minerals in this group are formed by serpentinization, a hydration and metamorphic transformation of ultramafic rock from the Earth's mantle...
stone on a cruciform
Cruciform
Cruciform means having the shape of a cross or Christian cross.- Cruciform architectural plan :This is a common description of Christian churches. In Early Christian, Byzantine and other Eastern Orthodox forms of church architecture this is more likely to mean a tetraconch plan, a Greek cross,...
plan. The adjoining cemetery is enclosed on three sides by a brick wall, and burials therein date from 1674 to the present. Church parishioners included five governors of Maryland, a state Attorney General, an Ambassador to the Netherlands, local judges and lawyers and several U.S. Congressmen, where most are buried.
Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery 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 1984.
Noteable Interments
Maryland governors
- John Henry (1797-98)
- Charles GoldsboroughCharles GoldsboroughCharles Goldsborough served as the 16th Governor of the state of Maryland in the United States in 1819.Goldsborough was born at "Hunting Creek", near Cambridge, Maryland, and pursued an academic course. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1784 and began to study law...
(1819) - Henry Lloyd (1885-88)
- Phillips Lee GoldsboroughPhillips Lee GoldsboroughPhillips Lee Goldsborough I , was a Republican member of the United States Senate representing State of Maryland from 1929 to 1935...
(1912-16) - Emerson C. Harrington (1916-20).
Other
- Robert GoldsboroughRobert GoldsboroughRobert Goldsborough was an American lawyer and statesman from Maryland. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress....
-delegate to the Continental CongressContinental CongressThe Continental Congress was a convention of delegates called together from the Thirteen Colonies that became the governing body of the United States during the American Revolution....
. - William A. Sulivane-State Boundary Commissioner for Dorchester County (appointed 1865). Grandson of James SulivaneJames SulivaneCaptain James Sulivane was the primary catalyst in the growth and development the town of East New Market, Maryland. In 1776, James Sulivane combined several tracts of land and resurveyed the tract as "Newmarket". In 1785 he carved out the town's first 20 lots on the northwest part of his...
. - Congressman Daniel Maynadier HenryDaniel Maynadier HenryDaniel Maynadier Henry was an American politician.Henry was born near Cambridge, Maryland, and attended Cambridge Academy and St. John's College of Annapolis, Maryland...
External links
- Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Dorchester County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Christ Episcopal Church website