Narragansett Baptist Church (also known as South Ferry Church) is an historic
Baptist
Baptists form a major branch of Protestantism distinguished by baptizing professing Christian believers only ( believer's baptism), and doing so by complete immersion. Baptist churches also generally subscribe to the doctrines of soul compe ...
church building located at 170 South Ferry Road, in
Narragansett, Rhode Island
Narragansett is a town in Washington County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 14,532 at the 2020 census. However, during the summer months the town's population more than doubles to near 34,000. The town of Narragansett occupie ...
.
History
The wooden church was designed by
Thomas A. Tefft in the
Carpenter Gothic style, and built in 1850.
South Ferry was a thriving textile village in the mid-nineteenth century, but by 1908 the Baptist congregation moved to a building 1 mile away.
The South Ferry Memorial Society acquired and maintained the building for the next 65 years.
The building was extensively repaired after suffering damage during the
Hurricane of 1938. In 1974 the
University of Rhode Island
The University of Rhode Island (URI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Kingston, Rhode Island, United States. It is the flagship public research as well as the land-grant university of the state of Rhode Isla ...
received title to the property, and the building is currently maintained by a private non-profit, Friends of the South Ferry Church.
SouthFerryChurch.org Official Website
accessed July 4, 2009)
The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1977.
Images
Image:SouthFerryChurchSign.JPG, Sign identifying the church and its status as a historic place.
See also
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Narragansett, Rhode Island
References
External links
SouthFerryChurch.org: Official church website
Baptist churches in Rhode Island
Buildings and structures in Narragansett, Rhode Island
Churches in Washington County, Rhode Island
Churches completed in 1850
19th-century Baptist churches in the United States
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Rhode Island
National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Rhode Island
Carpenter Gothic church buildings in the United States
Gothic Revival church buildings in Rhode Island
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