St. Andrew's Church is a historic church located at 44078 St. Andrew's Church Road,
California
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near
Leonardtown,
St. Mary's County, Maryland
St. Mary's County, established in 1637, is a county located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 113,777. Its county seat is Leonardtown. The name is in honor of Mary, the mother of Jesus. St. Mary's Count ...
. It was built in 1766 to serve as the parish church of St. Andrew's Parish, which had been established in 1744. It is a rectangular brick box church laid in
Flemish bond with a gable roof and round-arched windows trimmed with brick segmental arches. At two corners stand two-story square brick towers with a diminutive spire. Richard Boulton designed the church in 1766; he was also responsible for the outstanding carving and ornamentation at
Sotterley
Sotterley, originally ''Southern-lea'' from its situation south of the river, Suckling, A.I., (1846). 'Sotterley', in ''The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk'', 2 vols (W.S. Cowell, Ipswich 1846), Ipp. 81–96(British History Onli ...
.
(1735-1792), who briefly served as Maryland's governor before his death, was an active parish member, serving twenty-eight years as a vestryman.
It was listed on 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 v ...
in 1973.
See also
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List of post 1692 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland
The Church of England, also known as the Anglican Church, became the established church of the Province of Maryland through an Act of the General Assembly in 1692. Ten counties had been established in the colony at the time, and those counties wer ...
References
External links
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*, including undated photo, at Maryland Historical Trust
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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Churches in St. Mary's County, Maryland
Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland
Episcopal church buildings in Maryland
Churches completed in 1766
18th-century Episcopal church buildings
Historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland
Leonardtown, Maryland
Religious organizations established in 1744
National Register of Historic Places in St. Mary's County, Maryland
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