Bangor Episcopal Church

Church in Pennsylvania, United States

United States historic place


Bangor Episcopal Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Bangor Episcopal Church, July 2013
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 No.	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]

Interior in 1946
Exterior in 1946
Church school building

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania". CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on July 21, 2007. Retrieved February 18, 2012. Note: This includes Mary Wiley Myers (December 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Bangor Episcopal Church" (PDF). Retrieved February 18, 2012.