Old Christ Church

Kent County · dedicated 1941 · 523 South State Street, Dover

Founded as a Mission by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in response to a petition from twenty-two inhabitants of Dover in 1703. The present church was erected in 1734. Among early missionaries here was the Rev. Charles Inglis, later first Bishop of Nova Scotia.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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