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    Sussex County

These are the Sussex County churches that have been photographed and are included on the
photographic inventory. The list is essentially complete, although I expect (and hope) someone
will call my attention to a church I have missed.

Municipality	Church	Sect	Fnd	Built	Style
Andover Twsp	Andover Presbyterian	Pres	1858	1858	meetinghouse
Balesville	Balesville Christian	Chris	1826	1856	Greek Revival
Beemer	Beemer Meeting House	Cong	1744	c1870	Gothic
Bevans	Dutch Reformed Ch of Sandystone	Ref	1737	1838	meetinghouse
Branchville	Branchville ME	ME	1820	1878	vernacular
Branchville	Branchville Presbyterian	Pres	1820	1856	eclectic
Colesville	Colesville Methodist Episcopal	ME	1873	1887	meetinghouse
Frankford Plains	Plains Church	union	1710	1860	meetinghouse
Franklin Boro	First Particular Baptist	Bapt	1823	1833	meetinghouse
Glenwood	North Vernon ME	ME	1837	1853	meetinghouse
Hainesville	North Dutch Church of Sandyston	Ref	1835	1855	meetinghouse
Hamburg	First Presbyterian of Hardystone	Pres	1818	1869	vernacular
Hamburg	Church of the Good Shepherd	Epis	1869	1872	Gothic
Lafayette	Lafayette Baptist	Bapt	1831	c1890	Victorian
Libertyville	Libertyville Methodist	ME	1861	1861	meetinghouse
near Monroe	Christian Church	Chris	c1840	c1860	Greek Revival
Montague	Reformed Church of the Minisink	Ref	1757	1899	vernacular
Newton	First Presbyterian	Pres	1786	c1870	Wren-Gibbs
Newton	Christ Church	Epis	1769	1868	Gothic Revival
Newton	St. Joseph's Roman Catholic	RC	1854	1872	Gothic
Ogdensburg	First Presbyterian	Pres	1880	1880	vernacular
Ogdensburg	Ogdensburg Methodist	ME	1880	1887	vernacular
Sandyston	Centerville Methodist	ME	1837	1838	meetinghouse
Sparta	Methodist Episcopal of Sparta	ME	1830	1868	Wren-Gibbs (sort of)
Sparta	Presbyterian Church of Sparta	Pres	1786	1804	traditional
Stanhope	First Presbyterian	Pres	1836	1844	traditional
Stillwater	Harmony Hill ME	ME	1802	1832	meetinghouse
Stillwater	First Presbyterian	Pres	1769	1838	vernacular
Stockholm	Stockholm Methodist Episcopal	ME	1800	1826	meetinghouse
Sussex	First Baptist	Bapt	1756	1882	vernacular
Sussex	First Methodist	ME	1858	1890s	Gothic
Sussex	First Presbyterian of Deckertown	Pres	1839	1891	Gothic
Swartswood	First Presbyterian	Pres	1854	1855	Greek Revival
Swartswood	Swartswood Methodist Episcopal	ME	1846	1856	vernacular
Tranquility	Tranquility Methodist Episcopal	ME	1828	1870s	Wren-Gibbs
Vernon	Vernon Methodist Episcopal	ME	1837	1871	vernacular
Vernon	St. Thomas Episcopal	Epis	1848	1847	vernacular Gothic
Walpack Center	Walpack Center Methodist	ME	1834	1871	Wren-Gibbs
Wantage	Old Clove meetinghouse	Ref	1757	1820	meetinghouse
Waterloo Village	Waterloo Methodist Episcopal	ME	c1855	1859	meetinghouse

 

Churches in boldface are either listed on the National Register or are otherwise of special interest.
If the name of the church is in brackets [ ] I am in doubt as to the founding congregation. The Sect
is the original religious denomination when the church was built. Fields left blank are those for
which I have no solid information.