Chapel Hill Bible Church

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The Chapel Hill Bible Church, formerly Amity Baptist Church is a Baptist church off Bingham Road in Marlboro, New York in the United States. It is a small, made ​​of wood, building in the Picturesque style of the Gothic Revival, which dates from the mid-19th century, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 7 January 2005 and represents the most southern entry in the register in Ulster County.

The building was originally not at its current location, but the church was a church in today's Midtown Manhattan, which had continued to split off from another church downtown. At the beginning of the 20th century, after the church was no longer used, was a former parishioner of up meanwhile had moved to Marlboro, dismantle the building and rebuild on a land belonging to him above the Hudson River. Over two decades, it was used by the Brotherhood of the Kingdom, a group of like -minded people who stood up for the Social Gospel, used to retreat. After a further period of vacancy, the present church was organized here later in the 1970s in the 20th century.

Buildings and grounds

The property of the church is a 12.5 acre ( 2.5 hectare) plot big on the west side of an unpaved side road that branches off to the south Marlboroughs Bingham Road in a southerly direction, about eight kilometers southwest of the main settlement of the Town, the unincorporated hamlet of Marlboro. It is situated on a hill that reaches a height of about 150 meters above sea level and only about 65 meters north of the border to Orange County.

The country is the area surrounding the church is rural, either cut down and used as an apple orchard or as an intact forest. A farm house is situated opposite the church on the other side of the access road. The plot of the church is largely covered with trees, but are freed in the northeastern part of the vegetation. A coating of sand volleyball court in this area was built in the summer months are here and playground equipment set up. From the open areas of the property the views of the Hudson Valley ranges in the east to the Shawangunk Ridge to the west. The access road bends here and leads across a parking lot to the southeast from a small square shaped area with a basketball ring. A second car park is located north-east of the church. A modern non- contributing garage is south. From there, a paved walkway to the entrance of the church.

Exterior

The church building itself has a Latin cross plan. There is a built in timber frame construction and a half storey building on a foundation of concrete at the front and sides as well as with mortar masonry stones at the back. The sloping terrain indemnifies the basement on the sides and the back, giving the impression of an additional floor is created. The facade is made ​​of verschindelt stained in brown color cedar wood, the steep gabled roof is covered with tar paper. Sit on it three small dormer windows on both sides of the east transept. To the west is located on both sides issued a three dormer windows with half roof. A low bell tower at the eastern end, the front.

The main entrance is located on the east façade and is flanked by arched windows with wooden frame. A small vestibule excellent shields the actual entrance of the weather. It has a gabled roof, which has the same inclination as the main roof. The slightly curved exterior entrance has an H-shaped portal frame, the exterior is clad with tongue and groove panels, the edges on the inner sides are chamfered and elaborate quatrefoil patterns are cut in the pediment above. Lancet windows are located on both sides of the entrance and above an octagonal bull's-eye.

The side doors have three windows similar to those on the east side and lie between the corner to the front and the cruise ship. The basement has three underlying Auschiebefenster, consisting of two rows of six double hung windows. The only one yoke exciting cruise ship has another lancet windows facing east and west. On the south side is a window group with three openings. On the north side of the transept escape doors are recessed into the walls, which lie on either side of the arched window at the end. Between the transept and the apse at the south side of an attachment with half roof. This has a cross bow window on the south side.

The west facade has an entrance to the basement and a window with three openings, which, like the other windows of colored composite in a diamond pattern discs. It is flanked by transept windows, another octagonal oxeye sitting in the rear pediment where the apse protruding. The basement of composite masonry with mortar Feldsteinenen. The edges of the windows, the main entrance and a side entrance on the south side are built of bricks.

Interior

The sanctuary is now sparsely furnished. Gently curved pews with helical arm rests and recessed rear fronts flanking the central aisle leading to the altar. The wooden floor is now carpeted; otherwise the plastered walls have wood paneling crafted in tongue-and- groove joint. In addition, the wooden beams and rafters that support the roof are clearly visible. At the end of the aisle, the altar stands on a pedestal. Also a wooden lectern is with details in the classical style on him.

Walls share from smaller rooms in the transept and the apse. In the transept smaller prayer rooms are housed. On the north side is a stained glass window with a religious motif. In the area of the entrance to the southern part of the transept a lavishly carved wooden Türmumfeld is attached with religious motifs, on which the organ pipes sit.

In the basement are additional rooms that serve secondary functions. They include a kitchen, toilets, rooms for Sunday school and a community hall. The boiler installed in 1902 is still in place, but the rest of the interior has been modernized. The rooms are covered with linoleum, the walls plastered and fitted with imitation wood paneling, the ceilings are suspended.

History

The early 1830s members of the Oliver Street Baptist Church split off (now Mariner's Temple ) in Lower Manhattan from among this congregation from. They rented a hall on Broadway in 1832, in which the young pastor William R. Williams said Mass and were planning to build our own church building.

Two years later joined you from a lease contract for a property on Amity Street, in the 1834 original Amity Street Baptist Church was built. This temple-like building in classical style had six ionic Säuken on its front facade. The architect Samuel Dunbar has, as one assumes his earlier design for the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church varied. Neither building is still preserved; the lectern in the church today, indicate its classical details on it, it could turn out to be an early work Minard LaFevers, is probably the only remnant of the original building.

Lower Manhattan's growth and its transformation in the early industrial period let it quickly be less attractive to the churches and many church congregations sold their property in the area to create a new structure to the north with the proceeds. The church at Amity Street was rebuilt a stables, and the community settled on a new plot of land on 54th Street. Because the name was true no longer geographically, the community renamed it mity Baptist Church.

The present church building was probably built as a chapel or additional building around 1860 on this property. Its Picturesque style, which is highlighted by the original tongue-and- groove wood paneling, was then a common style in the construction of many North American Protestant churches. Richard Upjohn, an Episcopalian immigrants from England makes the Gothic Revival style for larger churches of his denomination popular. Baptists tended to be rather modest, restrained styles, which was used in numerous variations.

After Williams had more than half a century passed the church, he died in 1885 he left his final message to the community. "Pray and trust, love serving the Lord and the Lord fervently and deeply. He will never leave that gave him their confidence, never. This legacy is written down on a wooden board, which is still owned by the church.

Leighton Williams took over his father's function. He purchased in 1893 the 200 acre plot of the city of Marlborough to the retreat and held from then on there once a year meeting of the Brotherhood of the Kingdom from, a collaboration with Walter Rauschenbusch, a proponent of the Social Gospel, founded group. After his marriage with his wife Nellie, he came here often. The community in New York City lost its members and eventually sold their property thereat. The chapel was left on the property and Williams made ​​her take apart in 1905 and bring in Ulster County, where it was rebuilt to its present position. He called the Chapel of the community Amity Amity Baptist Church, which was one of the largest Sunday Schools in the area soon.

1914 Williams sold the building and the associated land for $ 4,250 ( $ 106,000 at today's prices ) to the trustees of the church. The church was to modernize the building, adds the transepts on the outer sides and let install an electric lighting. 1915 organized the Brotherhood their last retreat in the building instead. Sometime after 1919 - a photograph from that year shows the building with the original facade of nut - and - feather - clad boards - gave the building its present Verschwindelung, the old facade cladding was probably used as food timber.

1927 overwritten the trustee the title to the church at the Amity Foundation, which included the Williams family and other local Baptists. 1961, most of its founding members died and the church property fell into neglect.

Members of Moulton Memorial Baptist Church in nearby Newburgh founded new the church and its foundation in 1962. After several years services were held again, followed by another period of inactivity. 1973 established the foundation the church again, this time under the name of Chapel Hill Community Church. In 1987 she took on its present name Chapel Hill Bible Church. In the 1990s, the number of parishioners had dropped to under ten, and it was again threatened with inactivity, but recovered the number of members of the community.