Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 74000957 Phone +1 410-220-3628 | Built 1856 (1856) Opened 1856 Added to NRHP 6 May 1974 | |
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Location 7474 Washington Blvd., Elkridge, Maryland Address 7474 Washington Blvd, Elkridge, MD 21075, USA Architectural style Shingle style architecture Similar Christ Church Guilford, Thomas Viaduct, Elkridge Furnace Complex, Savage Mill, Rockburn Branch Park | ||
Trinity Church or Trinity on the Pike is a historic Episcopal church located at modern Elkridge, Howard County, Maryland. The post road site was also known as Waterloo, Pierceland, Jessop and Jessup throughout the years.
It was built starting in July 30, 1856 though 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 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. 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.
Trinity and most of its land were sold by its pastor in 1970 to form the South Columbia Baptist Church in Guilford by later demolishing the historic 1846 Thomas Worthington home "Moundland". The remainder of the Trinity Church property was converted to a waste transfer station to accommodate the closing of Alpha Ridge Landfill, followed by an industrial mulching facility, and later rezoned to accommodate the Blue Stream Housing development.
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.