St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Burlington, New Jersey facts for kids
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New St. Mary's Episcopal Church
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New St. Mary's Church
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 Location in Burlington County, New Jersey
Location in New Jersey
Location in the United States
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| Location | 145 West Broad Street Burlington, New Jersey |
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| Area | 6.2 acres (2.5 ha) |
| Built | 1846-1854 |
| Architect | Richard Upjohn et al. |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 72000770 |
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| Added to NRHP | May 31, 1972 |
| Designated NHL | June 24, 1986 |
St. Mary's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal parish in Burlington, Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. The original church was built in 1703. It was supplemented with a new church on adjacent land in 1854. On May 31, 1972, the new church was added to the National Register of Historic Places and on June 24, 1986, it was declared a National Historic Landmark. It is within the Burlington Historic District.
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Old church
In 1695 settlers acquired land for a cemetery at West Broad and Wood streets. In 1702 the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts sent Anglican missionaries from England to New Jersey. One of them, John Talbot, became rector of St. Mary's Church (built in 1703) in 1705. It is the first and oldest Episcopal congregation in New Jersey.
As the congregation grew, parishioners decided to build a new, larger church. They commissioned Richard Upjohn to design it. In 1846, construction began on adjoining land at 145 West Broad Street. It was consecrated in 1854.
New church
New St. Mary's Church was constructed between 1846 and 1854. It is one of the earliest attempts in the United States to "follow a specific English medieval church model for which measured drawings existed." This Gothic Revival-style church was designed by Richard Upjohn, who modeled it after St. John's Church in Shottesbrooke, England. It helped to firmly establish Upjohn as a practitioner of Gothic design. It is a massive brownstone church with a long nave. The crossing is topped by a tall stone spire that has eight bells cast in England in 1865 by Thomas Mears II at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry. It has been designated as a National Historic Landmark.
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Old St. Mary's Church
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New St. Mary's Church
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Church in Shottesbrooke
Notable burials
- Joseph Bloomfield (1753–1823), Governor of New Jersey.
- Elias Boudinot (1740–1821), President of the Continental Congress from 1782-1783.
- William Bradford (1755–1795), United States Attorney General
- Daniel Coxe, Governor of West Jersey
- George Washington Doane (1799–1859), second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
- Rowland Ellis
- Edward Burd Grubb Jr. (1841–1913), American Civil War Brevet Brigadier General.
- Franklin D'Olier, founder of the American Legion
- James Kinsey (1731–1803), Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1789 to 1803.
- Henry Seymour Lansing, American Civil War Brevet Brigadier General
- Joseph McIlvaine (1769–1826), represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from 1823 to 1826.
- William Milnor (1769–1848), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and Mayor of Philadelphia.
- William H. Odenheimer, third Bishop of New Jersey
- Isabel Paterson (1886–1961), libertarian author.
- John H. Pugh (1827–1905), represented New Jersey's 2nd congressional district from 1877-1879.
- Garret D. Wall (1783–1850), United States Senator from 1835-1841.
- James Walter Wall (1820–1872), United States Senator and Mayor of Burlington, New Jersey.
