Address: 30 Church St
Inventory Num: 52
Location: West side Route 85, 0.2 Mi South of Rte 66
Year Built: 1826
Builder: Unknown
Style: Gothic Revival
Current Use: St Peters Church
(District)
1993
Notable Architectural Features:
- Bell tower centered at rear is capped with a wooden cap with corner pilasters Gothic teardrop details, and lancet shaped screen panels
- Ashlar foundation
- Giant pilasters with recessed lancet shaped panels to continue the window pattern
- Tie rods appear to be later addition circa 1960s
- Lancet windows on brick hood moulds and granite sills have memorial stained glass windows in them
- The front entrance is two modern doors under a massive lancet window with a gothic window pattern. This is flanked by two lancet windows the same size as the windows in the nave of the church. These three windows are the only three that have the original clear glass used in the church
Importance:Exterior Ivy-covered, and shaded by many trees, this old brick church and surrounds create the impression of an English churchyard. The roof pitch is not over steep, and the cornice is extremely simple. The tower is unusually placed at the rear of the church, in the graveyard. It is simple, the ground story of brick, the small upper story of wood. The corners are turned by pilasters, and there is a simple cornice.
Doorway The doorway has a trace of English gothic feeling, perhaps not original. The door itself has sunken panels.
(WPA Architectural Survey - ca. 1935 - # 18)
Notes:St. Peters Episcopal Church
"view...showing one of three lanceted, arched Italian Gothic Revival windows spaced across its facade. This fine old church is a copy of an old Italian church, having the same facade and same belfry placed in the rear. St. Peters is also noted for its old box pews in the nave and 1860 organ, which is still considered one of New England's outstanding musical instruments."
(from Hebron, Ct: Hebron Historical Society booklet prepared for America's Bicentennial) 
