Trinity Episcopal Church - Moorestown, NJ
N 39° 57.753 W 074° 57.013
18S E 504251 N 4423601
This is but one of many 18th & 19th structures lining W. Main St. in historic Moorestown, NJ. This is a huge monolith of a stone church and is a contributing structure to the Moorestown Historic District.
Waymark Code: WM5DK8
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 12/23/2008
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Throughout my tour of downtown Moorestown I discovered several of those oval, historic contributing structure plaques. One plaque was numbered 41, so I guess that means there are at least that many in town. As indicated by the plaque out front, this church is marked as #3 of contributing structures for the Moorestown Historic District as designated by the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1929, this English Rural Gothic Revival church is 1 of 351 contributing structures to the Moorestown Historic District.
I love the huge, unique front doors and that amazing steeple you can see for a 1/2 mile in any direction. The folks there were very kind and allowed me to tour the site and answered many of my questions. This is entire are is chock full of churches all very close to one another. There are Baptist, Quaker, Catholic and Episcopal denominations. Religious tolerance founded this place and continues to be a driving force behind Moorestown's continued success.
Trinity has a fully-sold cemetery with headstones dating back to the 1700's, which is maintained through a special fund. In addition, ashes are interred in the Cloister Garden, where a bronze plaque contains the names of the deceased.
Located at 207 West Main Street in downtown Moorestown, this is one of 351 contributing buildings/structures to this historic district.
"The Department of the Interior sent me the following narrative/information on this house:
"Built 1929 by architects Karcher & Smith. English Rural Gothic Revival church complex composed of church, rectory, parish hall and chapel. All of coursed ashlar, trimmed with cast stone, and crowned with multi-color slate shingled roofs. Church has side entrance into nave and front entrance into tower that rises to stone spire fenestrated with dormers. Gothic-arched entrances and leaded glass windows, trimmed with stone coping and quoining. Arcaded cloister connects church with rectory. rectory continues use of materials; fenestrated by casement sash, wall dormers; massive exterior end chimmney. Parish hall and chapel of same materials and Gothic motifs as other buildings, Landscaped courtyard between church, cloister, rectory, and parish hall and chapel. Cemetery, surrounded by stone rear wall, to rear of building complex. Stone Sunday School addition at rear to the west." Contributing."
