Early Religious Architecture of Burlington County, New Jersey 1703-1900

All 127 surviving structures erected for religious purposes in Burlington County are surveyed and placed in the context of significant liturgical, ethnic, style and constructions practices of the period. The county was dominated in the 18th century by Quaker meetinghouses, but Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches are more common by the American Revolution. Those of the hinterlands are quite distinct from churches erected in the rivertowns by the time of the Civil War. This work might be considered an explanation of three cultural landscapes that arose in the 18th and 19th centuries.