en St. Thomas Episcopal Church (Bath, North Carolina)

	St. Thomas Episcopal Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Craven St., Bath, North Carolina
Coordinates	35°28′26″N 76°48′50″W / 35.47389°N 76.81389°W
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1734
NRHP reference No.	70000440
Added to NRHP	November 20, 1970

St. Thomas Episcopal Church is a historic church on Craven Street in Bath, North Carolina. The church building was constructed in 1734 and is the oldest surviving church building in North Carolina. It is a Flemish bond brick structure.^[2]^[3]

St. Thomas Parish was established soon after the founding of Bath County, North Carolina in 1696 with the original church parishioners meeting in homes. Around 1700 Rev. Thomas Bray, founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in England, mailed books to St Thomas Parish, founding the first public library in the colony.^[2]

The church building was constructed in 1734. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ ^a ^b "St. Thomas Episcopal Church | Bath, NC". www.stthomasparishnc.org.
^ J. G. Zehmer and John B. Wells (September 1970). "St. Thomas Episcopal Church" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.