Snells Bush Church and Cemetery, also known as St. Paul's Dutch Reformed Church is a historic

Dutch Reformed The Dutch Reformed Church (, abbreviated NHK) was the largest Christian denomination in the Netherlands from the onset of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century until 1930. It was the original denomination of the Dutch Royal Family an ...

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...

located in Manheim,

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. It was built in 1852, and is a one-story, rectangular,

Greek Revival The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but ...

style timber frame church. The front gable roof is topped by a two-stage belfry. Adjacent to the church is the contributing

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

containing 345 recorded burials. The earliest burial dates to 1804. ''Note:'' This includes an
''Accompanying photographs''
/ref> It was added to the

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in 2004.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Snells Bush Church And Cemetery Dutch Reformed Church buildings Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Churches in Herkimer County, New York Cemeteries in Herkimer County, New York Protestant Reformed cemeteries National Register of Historic Places in Herkimer County, New York Reformed churches in the United States Cemeteries established in the 1800s