Mount Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery, also known as Lebanon Chapel, is a historic
Episcopal
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chapel
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and
cemetery
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located on the grounds of
Airlie Gardens
Airlie Gardens is a public garden in Wilmington, North Carolina.
History
It was created in 1886 as a private garden for the Pembroke Jones family by Mrs. Jones. The name 'Airlie' was derived from the Jones' family home in Scotland. It was designe ...
in
Wilmington,
New Hanover County, North Carolina
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. It was built about 1835, and is a one-story, three bay by three bay, gable-roofed, rectangular building in a vernacular
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. It measures 26 feet wide and 37 feet deep, and is sheathed in weatherboard. It was restored in 1974. The cemetery contains 138 burials dating from 1815 to 2016.
Mt. Lebanon Chapel and Cemetery
Retrieved May 16, 2020 It is the oldest known surviving church in New Hanover County.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1986.
References
Episcopal church buildings in North Carolina
Cemeteries in New Hanover County, North Carolina
Anglican cemeteries in the United States
Chapels in the United States
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina
Greek Revival church buildings in North Carolina
Gothic Revival church buildings in North Carolina
Churches completed in 1835
Churches in New Hanover County, North Carolina
19th-century Episcopal church buildings
National Register of Historic Places in New Hanover County, North Carolina
Cemeteries established in the 1810s
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