First United Methodist Church is a historic

United Methodist The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism. In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a leader in evangelic ...

church at Ilion in

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. It consists of the original church was built between 1864 and 1866 and the attached 1890 Remington Chapel. The main block of the church consists of tall, red brick masonry walls erected above a basement of cut stone in the

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style. The 85 feet by 45 feet rectangular, gable roofed sanctuary features an engaged brick entrance /

bell tower A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell tower ...

. The Remington Chapel features Tiffany stained glass windows installed in 1911 and 1928 in memory to members of the Remington family. ''See also:'' It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

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United Methodist churches in New York (state) Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Italianate architecture in New York (state) Churches completed in 1866 19th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States Churches in Herkimer County, New York 1866 establishments in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Herkimer County, New York Italianate church buildings in the United States {{NewYork-church-stub