Middleham Chapel is an historic Episcopal church

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 10210 H. G. Trueman Road in Lusby

Lusby, Maryland

Lusby is a place in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. The population was officially 1,666 at the 2000 census, although residents of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point community also use the Lusby zip code designation, making Lusby in fact a much larger community...

, Calvert County, Maryland

Calvert County, Maryland

Calvert County is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. It occupies the Calvert Peninsula which is bordered on the east by the Chesapeake Bay and on the west by the Patuxent River. Calvert County is part of the Southern Maryland region. Calvert County's residents are among the highest...

. It is a one-story, cruciform, Flemish bond brick structure with exposed fieldstone

Fieldstone

Fieldstone is a building construction material. Strictly speaking, it is stone collected from the surface of fields where it occurs naturally...

 foundations. It was built in 1748, to replace an earlier frame or log structure believed to have been erected as early as 1684, as a Chapel of Ease

Chapel of ease

A chapel of ease is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently....

 of Christ Church Parish

Christ Church (Port Republic, Maryland)

The Christ Church is a historic Episcopal church located at Port Republic, Calvert County, Maryland, United States. The church is a three-bay-wide, five bays long, beige stucco covered structure featuring stained glass in most of the tall paired round-arched sash windows. It is the mother Episcopal...

. The date of construction is worked into the brick on the front of the church.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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 in 1975.

Middleham Chapel is still in use today. In 1900 it joined with nearby St. Peter's Chapel

St. Peter's Chapel

St. Peter's Chapel is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style Episcopal church building located at 14590 Solomon's Island Road, South, in Solomons, Calvert County, Maryland. Built in 1889, it features the steep roof, lancet windows and board and batten siding typical of Carpenter Gothic churches. In...

 to form Middleham and St. Peter's Episcopal Parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland

Episcopal Diocese of Maryland

The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland forms part of Province 3 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. It is made up of the northern and central Maryland counties of Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, Harford, Howard, and Washington...

. The parish's current rector is the Rev. David Showers.

External links

• Middleham and St. Peter's Episcopal Parish official website
• Middleham Chapel, Calvert County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Middleham Protestant Episcopal Chapel, Solomons Island Road (State Routes 2 & 4), Lusby vicinity, Calvert County, MD: 1 photo, 1 data page, at Historic American Building Survey