St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church (Quantico, Maryland)
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St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, also known as Green Hill Church, is a historic Episcopal church
located at Quantico
, Wicomico County, Maryland
. It is a single-story, Flemish bond gable-front brick church built in 1733. Adjacent to the church are several marked burials with 18th and 19th century stones. It was built originally to serve the needs of Green Hill Town, a port of entry created as part of an Act of Provincial Assembly in 1706. Stepney Parish, as it was originally named, was one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1975.
The church is closed and no longer holds regular services. It is opened once a year in August for a St. Bartholomew's Day worship service held by three local Episcopal churches.
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 Quantico
Quantico, Maryland
Quantico is an unincorporated community in Wicomico County, Maryland, United States, along the former stage route from Vienna to the port of Whitehaven on the Wicomico River. It consists of approximately 35 homes on the Quantico Creek. The community lies four miles from Hebron, Maryland along...
, Wicomico County, Maryland
Wicomico County, Maryland
As of the census of 2010, there were 98,733 people, 37,220 households, and 24,172 families residing in the county. The population density was 261.7 people per square mile . There were 41,192 housing units at an average density of 109.2 per square mile...
. It is a single-story, Flemish bond gable-front brick church built in 1733. Adjacent to the church are several marked burials with 18th and 19th century stones. It was built originally to serve the needs of Green Hill Town, a port of entry created as part of an Act of Provincial Assembly in 1706. Stepney Parish, as it was originally named, was one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland.
It 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 1975.
The church is closed and no longer holds regular services. It is opened once a year in August for a St. Bartholomew's Day worship service held by three local Episcopal churches.
See also
- Old Christ Church (Laurel, Delaware)Old Christ Church (Laurel, Delaware)Old Christ Church, also known as Old Lightwood, is a historic church near Laurel, Delaware. The 1772 church resembles its parent church, Green Hill Church of Stepney Parish in Green Hill, Maryland, except that while Stepney was built in brick, Christ Church is of wood construction...
, a "parish of ease" associated with the Green Hill Church, executed in wood rather than brick
External links
- St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Wicomico County, including photo from 1996, at Maryland Historical Trust
- Historical Marker Database for Old Green Hill Church