Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery is an historic
Episcopal
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*Episcopate, the see of a bishop – a diocese
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church and cemetery located at
Cambridge
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,
Dorchester County, Maryland
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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.
The church structure, designed by noted Baltimore architect
Charles E. Cassell and built between 1883 and 1884, is a large
Gothic Revival
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stone structure of green
serpentinite
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stone on a
cruciform
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Cruciform architectural plan
Christian churches are commonly described ...
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.
Christ Episcopal Church and Cemetery was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1984.
Notable interments
Maryland governors
*
John Henry (1797–98)
*
Charles Goldsborough
Charles Goldsborough (July 15, 1765 – December 13, 1834) served as the 16th Governor of the state of Maryland in the United States in 1819.
Early life
Goldsborough was born at "Hunting Creek", near Cambridge in Dorchester County, Maryland, a ...
(1819)
*
Henry Lloyd (1885–88)
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Phillips Lee Goldsborough
Phillips Lee Goldsborough I (August 6, 1865October 22, 1946), was an American Republican Party (United States), Republican politician and member of the United States Senate representing Maryland, State of Maryland from 1929 to 1935. He was also ...
(1912–16)
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Emerson C. Harrington (1916–20).
Other
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Robert Goldsborough
Robert Goldsborough (December 3, 1733 – December 22, 1788) was an American lawyer and statesman from Maryland. He served as a delegate to the Continental Congress.
Early life
Robert Goldsborough was the son of Elizabeth (née Ennalls) and ...
-delegate to the
Continental Congress
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.
*William A. Sulivane-State Boundary Commissioner for Dorchester County (appointed 1865). Grandson of
James Sulivane
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.
*Congressman
Daniel Maynadier Henry
Daniel Maynadier Henry (February 19, 1823 – August 31, 1899) was an American politician.
Early life
Henry was born near Cambridge, Maryland, and attended Cambridge Academy and St. John's College of Annapolis, Maryland. He studied law, w ...
References
External links
*, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
Christ Episcopal Church website
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Churches completed in 1884
19th-century Episcopal church buildings
Episcopal church buildings in Maryland
Gothic Revival church buildings in Maryland
Anglican cemeteries in the United States
Churches in Dorchester County, Maryland
Cambridge, Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Dorchester County, Maryland
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