Christ Church, or Christ Episcopal Church, West River, is an historic
Carpenter Gothic
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style
Episcopal church at
Owensville,
Anne Arundel County
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,
Maryland
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,
United States
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. It is a small, board-and-
batten
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In the lighting industry, battens refer to linea ...
church with a long narrow
nave
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, small deep
chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building. It may terminate in an apse.
Ov ...
, and an entrance porch on its south side. The church is reputed to be by the noted church architect,
Richard Upjohn
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and was at least built from his published designs of 1852.
Christ Church was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1973.
References
External links
*, including photo from 1990, at Maryland Historical Trust
Christ Episcopal Church, West River website
1869 establishments in Maryland
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Episcopal church buildings in Maryland
Churches in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
Churches completed in 1869
19th-century Episcopal church buildings
Carpenter Gothic church buildings in Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Anne Arundel County, Maryland
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