The present Immanuel Episcopal Church was finished in

Bellows Falls Bellows Falls is an incorporated village located in the town of Rockingham in Windham County, Vermont, United States. The population was 2,747 at the 2020 census. Bellows Falls is home to the Green Mountain Railroad, a heritage railroad; the ...

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in 1869 and was designed by the renowned

Gothic revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

architect Richard M. Upjohn. The building's Gothic style would have been typical of 14th-century

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. The multi-colored fish scale slate roof is typical of the

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style of

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. One of the building's notable features is the

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ed and

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d bell tower that has an octagonal "lantern"-styled top. There is a

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bell hanging in the tower that hung in the original 1817 church that was on the same site. One famous interment in the cemetery next door is

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, the "Witch of Wall Street", who was the wealthiest woman in the world during her time. Other notables burials include

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generals

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and his younger brother Charles B. Stoughton.

References

External links

Official website
{{coord, 43.133725, -72.4454799, display=title Buildings and structures in Bellows Falls, Vermont Churches completed in 1869 Episcopal churches in Vermont Gothic Revival architecture in Vermont Richard Michell Upjohn church buildings Churches in Windham County, Vermont