Caroline Church and Cemetery is a historic Episcopal

church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * C ...

and

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and also a national historic district at the junction of Dyke and Bates Roads in

Setauket Setauket is a hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Brookhaven, New York, Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, Suffolk County, New York (state), New York, United States, on the North Shore (Long Island), Nort ...

, Suffolk County, New York. The church was built in 1729 and is a three-by-four-bay, heavy timber-framed, 42 by 30 foot building sheathed in wood shingles and covered by a gable roof. It features a 42-foot tower surmounted by a 25-foot

spire A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples. A spire may have a square, circular, or polygonal plan, with a roughly conical or pyramidal shape. Spires a ...

. The complex also includes the parish house, built in 1905, and a barn built in 1893. The cemetery was established in 1734. ''See also:'' It was added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1991.

Images

File:Captain William Oldrin (1773-1858) and Almy Kinner (1780-1853) tombstone.jpg, Captain William Oldrin (1773–1858) and Almy Kinner (1780–1853) tombstone

References

External links

Caroline Church Official Website
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Churches completed in 1729 Churches in Suffolk County, New York 18th-century churches in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Suffolk County, New York 1729 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies {{NewYork-church-stub