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St. Paul's Church (Fairlee, Maryland)

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Nearest city
  
Chestertown, Maryland

NRHP Reference #
  
80001820

Area
  
5 ha

Added to NRHP
  
6 June 1980

Built
  
ca. 1712

Opened
  
1712

Phone
  
+1 410-778-1540

St. Paul's Church (Fairlee, Maryland)

Location
  
7579 Sandy Bottom Rd., Fairlee, Maryland

Address
  
7579 Sandy Bottom Rd, Chestertown, MD 21620, USA

Similar
  
Shrewsbury Church, Friends of the Eastern Neck, Historical Society‑Kent County, St Luke's Church, St Paul's Parish Church

Profiles

St. Paul's Church, also known as St. Paul's Church, Fairlee, is an historic Episcopal church located at Fairlee, Kent County, Maryland. It is an 18th-century brick structure, dating to about 1712, measuring 30 feet by 40 feet with a semicircular apse on the east gable. Additions occurred after 1841, when a robing room was built (later enlarged in 1967) then around 1908, when an organ room was built, It is the earliest existing Episcopal church building on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, except for the restored Trinity Church, Church Creek and one of the first parishes established by the Colonial Assembly in 1692 for the dissemination of the Church of England throughout the province. St. Paul's Parish, Kent was one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

References

St. Paul's Church (Fairlee, Maryland) Wikipedia