Saint John's Church (Hagerstown, Maryland)
| Saint John’s Episcopal Church Mount Prospect |
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| 39°23′02″N 77°26′01″W / 39.3839°N 77.4335°WCoordinates: 39°23′02″N 77°26′01″W / 39.3839°N 77.4335°W | |
| Location | Hagerstown, Maryland, United States |
| Denomination | Episcopal |
| Churchmanship | Broad church |
| History | |
| Founded | 1786 |
| Founder(s) | Maryland General Assembly |
| Dedication | John the Evangelist |
| Associated people |
Bartholomew Booth Horatio Gates Otho Holland Williams Nathaniel Rochester Ann Carroll Fitzhugh Bushrod Washington James Roosevelt Bayley Samuel Ringgold Theodore Benedict Lyman Donald McNeill Fairfax Louis E. McComas John Poyntz Tyler William Preston Lane, Jr. William D. Byron Katharine Byron Goodloe Byron Frederick C. Wright III |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architect(s) | E.T. Littell |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic |
| Groundbreaking | 1871 |
| Completed | 1872 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 300 |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Saint John’s Parish, lower Cumberland valley |
| Diocese | Maryland |
| Province | Third |
| Clergy | |
| Rector | The Rev. Ann Boyd |
St. John's Church, or St. John's Episcopal Church, founded in 1786, is an historic Episcopal church located at 101 South Prospect Street in the South Prospect Street Historic District of Hagerstown, Maryland. It is the seat of Saint John’s Parish, Diocese of Maryland, which covers most of Washington County, Maryland.
Though it is the mother church of Saint John’s Parish in the lower Cumberland valley, Saint John’s Church Hagerstown is also one of the many daughter churches of Broad Creek Church of Piscataway Parish. The current physical church is the fourth since establishment of the “Chapel in the Woods” (1747) as a chapel of ease for All Saints Church (1742) in Frederick, Maryland. Services began in 1744, and four decades later the congregation erected a brick church on Mulberry Street in Hagerstown, the site of which is still maintained as the church cemetery. The General Assembly of Maryland separated the congregation from All Saints’ Frederick in 1786, creating a new “Frederick Parish” named for Frederick Calvert, last proprietor of Maryland. In 1797, Bishop John Thomas Claggett consecrated the sanctuary and in 1806, the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland renamed the parish after Saint John the Evangelist.
Saint John’s rector in the late Federal period was the Rev. Thomas P. Irving, one of the foremost Greek and Latin scholars of that period. Native to Somerset County, Maryland, Irving attended Princeton College and thereafter supported himself as a teacher as well as minister. He was headmaster at New Bern Academy and later, the Hagerstown Academy, the educational mission of which is carried on by Saint James School. Bishop William White ordained him as a priest. The mission of advancing learning in Hagerstown has been integral to the work of Saint John’s Church. The Rev. George Lemmon conducted weekly lectures through to 1827. In 1842, Saint John’s rector Theodore Benedict Lyman served as the Bishop’s agent in identifying and purchasing the grounds for Saint James School.
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