Prince George's Chapel
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| File:Prince George's Chapel, Route 26, Dagsboro (Sussex County, Delaware).jpg Prince George's Chapel in 1960 | |
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| Location | East of Dagsboro on Delaware Route 26, near Dagsboro, Delaware |
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| Area | 2.3 acres (0.93 ha) |
| Built | 1757 |
| Architectural style | English Tradition |
| NRHP reference No. | 71000235[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 24, 1971 |
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Prince George's Chapel is a historic Episcopal chapel of ease located in Dagsboro, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in what was then a rural area in 1755 as a chapel-of-ease for St. Martin's Church, Worcester Parish, Maryland. Churches built to serve the outlying areas of a parish where it was difficult for people to travel to the main church were given a chapel-of-ease designation. On June 30, 1757, the completed chapel was received by the vestry, dedicated, and named "Prince George's Chapel" for England's Prince George, later George III of the United Kingdom.[2] It is a small, shingled structure. A transept and chancel were added about 1763, but these have been removed. The interior features a vaulted ceiling of heart-pine, timbered pine pillars.[3] The State of Delaware purchased the property in 1967 and renovated the building.[4]
The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[1]
Notable burials in church's cemetery
[edit | edit source]- General John Dagworthy, namesake of Dagsboro, Revolutionary War veteran
References
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- ^ Sandie Gerken, Dagsboro's Historic Treasure, High Tide News, February 2014
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). and Accompanying two photos
- ^ Delaware Public Archives: Prince George's Chapel Archived 2012-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
External links
[edit | edit source]- Sussex County Online: Prince George's Chapel, Dagsboro, Delaware
- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. DE-158, "Prince George's Chapel, Route 26, Dagsboro, Sussex County, DE", 4 photos, 3 data pages, 1 photo caption page
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- Episcopal church buildings in Delaware
- Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
- Churches completed in 1757
- Churches in Sussex County, Delaware
- 18th-century Episcopal church buildings
- Historic American Buildings Survey in Delaware
- National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware
- Episcopal chapels in the United States
- Chapels of ease in the United States
- 18th-century establishments in Delaware
- Delaware Registered Historic Place stubs
- Southern United States Anglican church stubs
- Delaware church stubs