No. 94 September 2011
The authoritative source on
early churches in New Jersey

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We've created a database and photographic inventory on more than half the 18th & 19th century churches in the state and add to it each month. We welcome and solicit all contributions and suggestions from our visitors.

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Central Methodist Church
Bridgeton, Cumberland County

Organized in 1864, the congregation acquired a site at East Commerce and Bank streets in 1865 and the following year built a brick chapel on the rear portion of the lot (it still survives). In 1889 architects Hazelhurt & Huckel of Philadelphia were engaged and created a Gothic basilica with transept, towers, buttresses and other doo-dads—an unusual but interesting combination that owes as much to the Romanesque Revival as to the Gothic idiom.
    

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