Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery (Cambridge, Maryland)

Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Christ Episcopal Church in 2014
Location	601 Church St., Cambridge, Maryland U.S.A.
Coordinates	38°34′19″N 76°4′36″W / 38.57194°N 76.07667°WCoordinates: 38°34′19″N 76°4′36″W / 38.57194°N 76.07667°W
Area	2 acres (0.81 ha)
Built	1883
Architect	Cassell, Charles F.
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
NRHP Reference #	84001767[1]
Added to NRHP	April 12, 1984

Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery is an historic Episcopal church and cemetery located at Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland 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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.^[1]

Notable interments

18th century burial at Christ Episcopal Church

Maryland governors

• John Henry (1797–98)
• Charles Goldsborough (1819)
• Henry Lloyd (1885–88)
• Phillips Lee Goldsborough (1912–16)
• Emerson C. Harrington (1916–20).^[4]

Other

• Robert Goldsborough-delegate to the Continental Congress.
• William A. Sulivane-State Boundary Commissioner for Dorchester County (appointed 1865). Grandson of James Sulivane.^[5]
• Congressman Daniel Maynadier Henry

References

1. National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
2. Middleton, the Rev. Canon Arthur Pierce, Ph.D., Anglican Maryland, 1692-1792, Virginia Beach: The Donning Company, 1992, 5 63-103, ISBN 0-89865-841-1
3. Geoffrey B. Henry (November 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
4. Arnett, Earl; Brugger,Robert J.; Papenfuse, Edward C. (March 22, 1999). Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line State. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 401. ISBN 978-0-8018-5980-9.
5. http://www.collinsfactor.com/families/sulivanej.htm

External links

• Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery, Dorchester County, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
• Christ Episcopal Church website