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  early churches of New Jersey

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Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Saint Mary's Hall
Burlington, Burlington County

 

This stone building on the grounds of a private school overlooking the Delaware is one of the most significant churches, architecturally, in the country. It was apparently the first to use measured drawings of a specific English church as the basis for its plan. The chapel was built in 1845 and the architect was John Notman, who had already designed St Thomas' Church in Glassboro in the Gothic manner. Notman was to become the official architect for the New York Ecclesiology Society, the leading proponent of the Gothic Revival style in this country.

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