Lovely Lane Methodist Church

Historic church in Maryland, United States

United States historic place

Significant dates

Lovely Lane United Methodist Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Baltimore City Landmark

First Methodist Episcopal Church (Lovely Lane United Methodist Church), 1895.
39°18′52″N 76°36′57″W / 39.31444°N 76.61583°W / 39.31444; -76.61583
Area	1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1884 (1884)
Architect	Stanford White
Architectural style	Romanesque
NRHP reference No.	73002189^[1]
Added to NRHP	May 25, 1973
Designated BCL	1971

Lovely Lane United Methodist Church (formerly known as First Methodist Episcopal Church and Lovely Lane Chapel) is a historic United Methodist church at 2200 St. Paul Street in the Charles Village neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

The building was designed by renowned New York City architect Stanford White in the Romanesque Revival style and completed in 1884 as the "Centennial Monument of American Methodism". It is patterned after the early churches and basilicas in Ravenna, Italy. The exterior is constructed of a gray ashlar granite with limited ornamentation. It features a square bell tower patterned after the campanile of the 12th century church of Santa Maria, Abbey of Pomposa, near Ravenna. The pulpit is a reproduction of the one at St. Apollinaris, in Ravenna.

Locally influential architect Charles L. Carson was supervising architect for the McKim, Mead & White firm during construction of the church.^[2] Lovely Lane Methodist Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[1]

Lovely Lane Chapel

The congregation is known as the "Mother Church of American Methodism."^[3] The original Lovely Lane Chapel or Meeting House was the scene of the December 1784 "Christmas Conference", at which the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States was founded and Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke were ordained as its first bishops.

The plain original chapel on Lovely Lane, off German (now Redwood) Street, between South Calvert Street and South Street in the city's waterfront district, was abandoned in 1786 and demolished. It was replaced (first) by an elaborate beaux-arts structure of the Merchants Club, and now the building contains a restaurant as well as offices and teaching space used by Chesapeake Shakespeare Company.

Gallery

Exterior in 2012
Interior of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, now Lovely Lane United Methodist Church on St. Paul Street.
The Ordination of Bishop Francis Asbury at the December 1784 "Christmas Conference".

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Dorsey, John; Dilts, James D. (1997). A Guide to the Architecture of Baltimore (3rd ed.). Centreville, Maryland: Tidewater Publishers. pp. 396–397. ISBN 0-87033-477-8.
^ Joyce Mcclay and Catharine Black (August 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Lovely Lane Methodist Church" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lovely Lane United Methodist Church (Baltimore).

Lovely Lane Methodist Church, Baltimore City, including photo from 2004, at Maryland Historical Trust
Lovely Lane United Methodist Church website
Lovely Lane United Methodist Church – Explore Baltimore Heritage

Methodist Episcopal Church

History

Anglican Church (in North America)
Methodism
History of Methodism in the United States
First Great Awakening
Articles of Religion
Circuit rider
Lovely Lane Methodist Church
Barratt's Chapel
Christmas Conference
Thomas Coke
Francis Asbury
Second Great Awakening
Connexionalism
Methodist Church (USA)
United Methodist Church
Mainline Protestant

Derivatives

Evangelical Association (1800)
African Methodist Episcopal Church (1816)
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1821)
Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada (1828)
Methodist Protestant Church (1828)
Christian Union (1864)
Church of God (Holiness) (1883)
Christ's Sanctified Holy Church (1892)
Church of the Nazarene (1895)
Pilgrim Holiness Church (1897)
Pentecostal Holiness Church of North Carolina (1897)
Lumber River Conference of the Holiness Methodist Church (1900)
Kentucky Mountain Holiness Association (1925)

Republican Methodist Church (1792)	Christian Connection (1810) Congregational Christian Churches (1931) Conservative Congregational Christian Conference (1948) National Association of Congregational Christian Churches (1955) United Church of Christ (1957)
Wesleyan Methodist Church (1841)	Church of Daniel's Band (1893) Fire-Baptized Holiness Church (1896) Missionary Methodist Church (1913) Bible Methodist Connection of Churches (1967) Bible Methodist Connection of Tennessee (1968) Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection (1968)
Methodist Episcopal Church, South (1844)	Congregational Methodist Church (1852) Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (1870) New Congregational Methodist Church (1881) People's Methodist Church (1938) Southern Methodist Church (1940)
Free Methodist Church (1860)	Reformed Free Methodist Church (1932) United Holiness Church (1955) Evangelical Wesleyan Church (1963)

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