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.

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.

St. Thomas Episcopal Church (Bath, North Carolina)

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

St. Thomas Episcopal Church (Bath, North Carolina)

See also

List of the oldest buildings in North Carolina

List of the oldest churches in the United States

References

External links

St. Thomas Church Official Website

Historic American Buildings Survey in North Carolina

18th-century Episcopal church buildings

Episcopal church buildings in North Carolina

Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in North Carolina

Churches completed in 1734

Churches in Beaufort County, North Carolina

National Register of Historic Places in Beaufort County, North Carolina

St. Thomas Episcopal Church (Bath, North Carolina)