Second Rindge Meetinghouse, Horsesheds And Cemetery
Description and history
The Second Rindge Meetinghouse stands prominently in the village center of Rindge, on the north side of School Street at its junction with Main Street and Payson Hill Road. It is a 2-1/2 story timber frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its front facade is wide, with three entrances on the ground floor and five sash windows on the second, with a row of short windows in the gallery level below the pedimented gable. A square tower rises to an open belfry, clock stage, and spire.
The building was built in 1796, replacing the town's first meeting house, which stood on approximately the same site and had been built about 1766. After the state mandated the separation of church and state with respect to these types of buildings, an arrangement was made in 1820 in which the property was owned by the town, and space within it was leased to the church congregation.
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Cheshire County, New Hampshire
- New Hampshire Historical Marker No. 138: Second Rindge Meeting House
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "NRHP nomination for Second Rindge Meetinghouse, Horsesheds and Cemetery". National Park Service. Retrieved April 30, 2014.