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Bay Meeting House and Vestry

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NRHP Reference #
  
84002508

Year built
  
1836

Area
  
2,400 m²

Added to NRHP
  
7 June 1984

Bay Meeting House and Vestry

Location
  
Upper Bay and Steele Rds., Sanbornton, New Hampshire

Architectural style
  
Federal, Gothic Revival

The Bay Meeting House and Vestry is a historic church complex on Upper Bay and Steele Roads in Sanbornton, New Hampshire. The wood frame church was built in 1836 for a Baptist congregation, on a site which had held a church since 1808, and exhibits well-preserved transitional Federal-Gothic Revival style. It is a rectangular structure with a gable roof and a two-stage belfry tower above its main (eastern) facade. The main facade has three bays and is two stories in height, with doorways occupying the outer bays on the first floor, and rectangular sash windows in the other positions. The doorways are slightly recessed in molded frames with corner blocks. The gable pediment is flushboarded, with a semi-elliptical in its center. The long sides of the church are lined with Gothic pointed-arch windows. The vestry is a relatively modest rectangular structure, built in 1841 with enlargements in the early 20th century and again in the 1980s.

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

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Bay Meeting House and Vestry Wikipedia