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Christ Church (also known as Old Durham Church) is one of the oldest (1732) surviving
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church buildings in the U.S. state of
Maryland Maryland ( ) is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It shares borders with Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean to ...
. Christ Church is located in the village of Ironsides within the town of
Nanjemoy Nanjemoy is a settlement along Maryland Route 6 in southwestern Charles County, Maryland, United States, and the surrounding large rural area more or less bounded by Nanjemoy Creek to the east and north, and the Potomac River to the south and west ...
. Old Trinity Church, Church Creek, Dorchester County, dates to c. 1675 and is thus older. The parish was established in 1661 and chartered in 1692. The original church building was a log structure, which was replaced with the current brick church building in 1732; the 1732 building was enlarged and renovated in 1791. Revolutionary War General
William Smallwood William Smallwood (1732February 14, 1792) was an American planter, soldier and politician from Charles County, Maryland. He served in the American Revolutionary War, rising to the rank of major general. He was serving as the fourth Governor ...
and colonial Governor William Stone are buried in the churchyard. Christ Church, Old Durham Parish, "About Us", http://christchurcholddurhamparish.com/About_Us.html .


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List of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland In 1692, the Church of England, also known as the Anglican Church, became the State church, established church of the Province of Maryland through an Act of the General Assembly. Ten counties had been established in the colony, and those counties we ...
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List of the oldest buildings in Maryland This article attempts to list some of the oldest extant buildings surviving in the state of Maryland in the United States of America. Some dates are approximate and based upon dendrochronology, architectural studies, and historical records. Sites ...
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Oldest churches in the United States The designation of the oldest church in the United States requires careful use of definitions, and must be divided into two parts, the oldest in the sense of oldest surviving ''building'', and the oldest in the sense of oldest Christian church ...


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