South Congregational Church (Newport, New Hampshire)

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South Congregational Church (Newport, New Hampshire) - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 43°21′40″N 72°10′14″W / 43.36111°N 72.17056°W

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South Congregational Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


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Location	58 S. Main St., Newport, New Hampshire
Coordinates	43°21′40″N 72°10′14″W / 43.36111°N 72.17056°W / 43.36111; -72.17056
Area	1.7 acres (0.69 ha)
Built	1823 (1823); 1918 (parsonage)
Architect	John Leach; James T. Kelley (parsonage)
Architectural style	Colonial Revival, Federal
NRHP reference No.	89000187^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 30, 1989

South Congregational Church (also known as United Church of Christ in Newport) is a historic church building at 58 S. Main Street (New Hampshire Route 10) in Newport, New Hampshire. The two-story brick church was built in 1823 by the carpenter John Leach for a congregation established in 1779, and is the most northerly of a series of rural churches based on a design used by Elias Carter in the design of the Congregational church in Templeton, Massachusetts.^[2] The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.^[1] The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

Description and history

The South Congregational Church is located (as its name suggests) south of the commercial and civic heart of downtown Newport, at the northeast corner of South Main and Church streets. It is a two-story brick building, with gabled roof. Its front facade is five bays wide, with a gabled entry pavilion projecting from the center three. The bays on the front and sides are articulated by brick piers, which rise to join by arches below the roof cornice. Doorways are set in the three central bays, topped by half-round transom windows. A four-stage tower rises above the entrances, each tier topped by a low balustrade with urned posts. The bottom two stages house a clock and belfry respectively, the latter with arched openings.^[2] The church bell was cast in 1822 by Paul Revere & Sons and weighs 1,241 pounds (563 kg).^[3] The upper two stages are octagonal, and are capped by a cupola.^[2]

Built in 1823, the church is one of western New Hampshire's finest surviving Federal period churches. It was built two years after the similar Acworth Congregational Church, a wooden church tentatively attributed to builder Elias Carter. Carter's designs are known to have been an influence on church construction in the region during the early 19th century, with numerous churches drawing inspiration from the church he built in Templeton, Massachusetts.^[2]

The church congregation was founded in 1779. The church's location, outside the present downtown, is the result of a long-running dispute within the town of where its civic heart should be located. The consequence of this disagreement resulted in the placement of the Baptist church at the town common (north of the present-day commercial downtown), and the placement of this church here.^[2]

In 1918 the church built a parsonage on the north side of the lot. This was built with funds donated by Lizzie M. Richards and designed by James T. Kelley of Boston. Kelley had previously designed Richards' house in 1898.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "NRHP nomination for South Congregational Church". National Park Service. Retrieved 2014-07-25.
^ "Paul Revere Bell List".

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v t e National Register of Historic Places in Sullivan County, New Hampshire
Landmarks	Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site Salmon P. Chase Birthplace
Districts	Central Business District Charlestown Main Street Historic District Lower Village District Monadnock Mills Newport Downtown Historic District North Charlestown Historic District Washington Common Historic District
Buildings	Acworth Silsby Library Backside Inn Blow-Me-Down Grange Charlestown Town Hall Claremont City Hall Claremont Warehouse No. 34 Farwell School Little Red School House 1835 District No. 7 Meriden Town Hall Mothers' and Daughters' Club House Plainfield Town Hall Protectworth Tavern Richards Free Library Richards, Dexter, & Sons Woolen Mill Sullivan County Courthouse Town Hall and Courthouse Unity Town Hall
Houses	Burford House Capt. John Gunnison House Cote House Covit House David Dexter House Durham House Garber House Giffin House Isaac Reed House Janicke House Knights-Morey House Lear House Louis St. Gaudens House and Studio Nettleton House Pike House Purnell House Scranton House Seavey House Stelljes House Welcome Acres William Rossiter House Williamson House Windswept Acres-Powers House
Places of worship	Acworth Congregational Church English Church First Baptist Church of Cornish First Universalist Chapel Langdon Meeting House Lempster Meetinghouse South Congregational Church Springfield Town Hall and Howard Memorial Methodist Church Trinity Church
Site	Hunter Archeological Site
Structures	Blow-Me-Down Covered Bridge Cold River Bridge Corbin Covered Bridge Cornish–Windsor Covered Bridge‡ Dingleton Hill Covered Bridge Kenyon Bridge Meriden Bridge Pier Bridge Prentiss Bridge Wright's Bridge
Footnotes	‡ This historic property also has portions in an adjacent state. Entries in italics have been removed from the register.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Sullivan County, New Hampshire and List of National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire

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