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Trinity Church is a historic
Episcopal church located at
Elkridge,
Howard County, Maryland
Howard County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the population was 287,085. As of the 2020 census its population rose to 328,200. Its county seat is Ellicott City. Howard County is included in the Baltimore-Colu ...
. The post road site was also known as Waterloo, Pierceland, Jessop and Jessup throughout the years.
It was built starting on July 30, 1856, through 1857 as a chapel-of-ease in Queen Caroline Parish, the mother church of which was, and still is,
Christ Church Guilford, near
Columbia, Maryland. The church land was donated from William G. Ridgley and Dr. Lennox Birckhead, a
Catonsville
Catonsville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 41,567 at the 2010 census. The community lies to the west of Baltimore along the city's border. Catonsville contains the majority of th ...
doctor who served in the
Battle of Fort McHenry. The land was once part of
Charles Carroll of Carrollton's land that comprised
Spurrier's Tavern
Spurrier's Tavern was a well-known tavern and horse-changing depot which stood by the main road between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. (now U.S. Route 1) from 1771 to 1835 near what is now Jessup, Maryland. George Washington visited the tavern se ...
. Theodore Tubman and Myers Pearce (of Pierceland) deeded the cemetery to the north of the church as "Chapel hill".
The first rector of Trinity Chapel, Alexander X. Berger served in 1857. Columbia's Berger road development is named after him. Berger resigned in 1861 at the outbreak of the civil war. In 1866, Trinity Chapel broke away from
Christ Church Guilford, becoming Trinity Church.
The church structure is a rectangular frame church of three bays with shingled walls and on the east end, a semi-octagonal
apse of stone. Major additions to the original structure took place ca. 1890.
It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
See also
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List of Howard County properties in the Maryland Historical Trust
Gallery
Image:Trinity Church Elkridge Hall Sept 09.JPG, Trinity Church Elkridge Hall, September 2009
Image:Trinity Church Elkridge Marker 1 Sept 09.JPG, Trinity Church Elkridge Historic Marker, September 2009
Image:Trinity Church Elkridge Marker 2 Sept 09.JPG, Trinity Church Elkridge Historic Marker, September 2009
References
External links
Website for Trinity Episcopal Church*, including photo from 1973, at Maryland Historical Trust
Elkridge, Maryland
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Churches completed in 1857
19th-century Episcopal church buildings
Episcopal church buildings in Maryland
Howard County, Maryland landmarks
Shingle Style church buildings
Churches in Howard County, Maryland
National Register of Historic Places in Howard County, Maryland
Shingle Style architecture in Maryland
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