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St. John's [Episcopal] Church
Dover, Morris County

The son of one important architect and brother of another was the Rector here in 1861 when the church was built; since the father (Richard Upjohn) had retired by this date, the son (Robert) designed the church in the Gothic Revival style his father had made popular. The building took five years to complete. The congregation was organized in 1849.
     The Gothic Revival style incorporated several design aspects that were liturgically important to the Anglican church, including an east-oriented altar, a south entrance, a dark interior (hence the narrow, lancet windows). The use of rusticated stone, buttresses, a steeply-pitched roof, and the bellcote were other common features, but apparently without liturgical significance.