Churchville Presbyterian Church

Churchville Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Churchville, Harford County, Maryland. It consists of three harmoniously designed sections: the original one-story, four by three bay, gable-roofed brick building dated to 1820; the three-story, restrained Italianate, brick bell tower added in 1870; and the low, one-story brick church hall and office added in 1950. Located adjacent is a sequestered graveyard with stones dating back to 1819. The community of Churchville, which surrounds the church, grew up around and took its name from the structure.

The 1870 addition of an Italianate, brick belltower was designed by architect J. Crawford Nielson of the firm Niernsee and Neilson.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

Notable burials

John Archer (1741–1810), U.S. Representative, Maryland delegate, physician

R. Harris Archer (died 1922), Maryland delegate

Stevenson Archer (1786–1848), U.S. Representative and Maryland delegate

Stevenson Archer (1827–1898), U.S. Representative and Treasurer of Maryland

J. Wilmer Cronin (1896–1982), state politician and lawyer from Maryland

John Miller Turpin Finney (1863–1942), academic and surgeon

Benedict H. Hanson (died 1882), state delegate

Stevenson A. Williams (1851–1932), Maryland state senator

References

External links

, including photo from 1979, at Maryland Historical Trust

Presbyterian churches in Maryland

Churches in Harford County, Maryland

Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland

Churches completed in 1820

19th-century Presbyterian church buildings in the United States

Churchville, Maryland

National Register of Historic Places in Harford County, Maryland