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{{short description|Historic church in Maryland, United States}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox NRHP
| name = St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
| nrhp_type =
| image = [[File:St Stephens Church, Earleville, Maryland.jpg|North Sassafras Parish|200px]]
| caption =
| location = Crystal Beach Road & Glebe Road, [[Earleville, Maryland]]
| coordinates = {{coord|39|25|31|N|75|55|6|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Maryland#USA
| built = {{Start date|1860}}
| architect = Dixon, Thomas
| architecture = Gothic Revival
| added = April 29, 1982
| area = {{convert|3.4|acre}}
| refnum = 82002810<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
}}

'''St. Stephen's Episcopal Church''' is a historic [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal church]] located in [[Earleville, Maryland|Earleville]], [[Cecil County, Maryland]].

'''North Sassafras Parish''', as it was originally known, was one of the [[List of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland|original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland]], named for its location north of the [[Sassafras River]] which separated Cecil County from [[Kent County, Maryland]]. On June 22, 1834, this parish hosted the ordination as an Episcopal deacon by bishop [[William Murray Stone]] of [[William Douglass (abolitionist)|William Douglass]], a Methodist preacher who then became the second rector of the historic [[African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas]] in Philadelphia (after [[Absalom Jones]]), where the African American abolitionist was ordained as a priest and served until his death in 1862.

The current church has a single-story rectangular stuccoed brick main block, three bays by three, resting on a partially excavated [[fieldstone]] foundation and covered by a steeply pitched [[slate]] roof. It features a 4-story [[bell tower]] with broach spire and patterned slate roof. This [[Gothic Revival]] structure was built in 1870–1874 but incorporated the walls of the earlier churches of 1824 and 1735. A graveyard surrounds the structure. The structure was designed by [[Thomas Dixon (architect)|Thomas Dixon]], a Baltimore architect.<ref name="mht_ihp">{{cite web|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-678.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: St. Stephen's Episcopal Church|date=November 1980 |accessdate=2016-01-01 |author=Paul B. Touart|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust}}</ref>

It was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1982.<ref name="nris"/>

==References==
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==External links==
{{commons category|St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Earleville, Maryland)}}
*{{MHT url|id=680|title=St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Cecil County}}, including photo from 1968, at Maryland Historical Trust

{{National Register of Historic Places in Maryland}}

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[[Category:Episcopal church buildings in Maryland]]
[[Category:19th-century Episcopal church buildings]]
[[Category:Churches in Cecil County, Maryland]]
[[Category:Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland]]
[[Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in Maryland]]
[[Category:Thomas Dixon (architect) buildings]]
[[Category:1860 establishments in Maryland]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Cecil County, Maryland]]

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St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Earleville, Maryland) - Revision history

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