Asbury Methodist Church, also known as Asbury Memorial Church and Asbury Methodist Episcopal Church South, is a historic

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located at Raynham,

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. It was built in 1861, and is a one-story, timber-frame building in a modest

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style. It measures approximately 40 feet by 50 feet and features a prominent, projecting, pedimented front gable supported by five posts. Adjacent to the church is the contributing

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with approximately 200 marked graves. The oldest grave dates to 1848. It was added to the

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in 2009.

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