Chalfant Church

The Chalfant Church is a wood frame structure which rests on a foundation of rock- the southwest corner of the building and framed by two projecting gables is a tall spire. This wooden structure is articulated by elaborate wood trim and louvered openings and is sets of doors on two sides which feature their original brass fittings and are reached by sets of stone steps. To the rear is another entrance and an outside stairway leading to the half basement. ornamented all window openings but were recently removed and stored to prevent theft until elliptical railing and an inner railing. The church enjoys a picturesque rural setting. It is located in a hilly but culti- which rises up a fairly steep hill. It contains monuments from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Across the road is an older and larger cemetery which has a number of very early sandstone monuments, some of which date from the 1820's. Behind the church is a recently erected picnic shelter, the only other structure on the unexposed property. excellent 7. Description - moveddate Condition .deteriorated faced sandstone. It is cross shaped in plan and is capped by intersecting gable roofs covered with slate. Three of the four gable ends each feature a large gothic window, accented by corner boards and bargeboard trim on each of the gable ends. Rising up from crowned by a steeply pitched pyramidal roof topped with a spire and weathervane.

The vertical windows, steeply pitched gable roof and the tall slender spire give this building The interior of the church consists of a single large meeting room featuring a pulpit at the east end and a small entryhall beneath the tower. Elaborate stained glass windows vated area with no other buildings in the vicinity.

(in one paragraph) and occupies the site of the first church building erected in the county. For many years during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries this was a remarkably active rural end of the nineteenth century the congregation built a remarkable building, considering its isolated rural location, which is an excellent example of Victorian Gothic architecture that is well preserved; perhaps the finest rural church in Coshocton County. The congregation was founded in 1808 by Rev. William Ellington, who became its first church was closed due to a dwindling congregation and a couple of years later was deeded church has been maintained by Grace Church as a memorial to a past minister at their 1893 1500-1599 economics 1700-1799 1400-1499 communications commerce humanitarian church.

industry engineering archeology-historic Builder/Architect military theater music literature Period conservation law 8. Significance 1900- Specific dates by the Methodist church conference to Grace United Methodist Church in Coshocton.The education The Chalfant Church was home to the first religious congregation in Coshocton County - other(specify) _ archeology-prehistoric X architecture X exploration/settlement - philosophy pastor and a place of worship was begun in 1811. It was located on land owned by Mordecai Chalfant which was originally intended by Rev. Ellington to become a community.

Chalfant meeting house was replaced by a wood frame building in 1849 which was repaired and remodeled 1600-1699 art was one of the area'searliest settlers and a prosperous farmer.In its earliest days nearly all the original members were from nearby Muskingum County.The original 1og - - communityplanning N.N. Hill, History of Coshocton County, Newark, O.: A.A. Graham & Co., 1881, p. 617. The Times Reporter, New Philadelphia, Ohio, June 7, 1980, p. B-4.