Old Christ Church Laurel to host Thanksgiving service Nov. 28

Historic Old Christ Church will hold a Thanksgiving service at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 28, at 12185 Chipmans Pond Road, Laurel.

The Rev. Dr. Jack Anderson of St. Phillip’s Episcopal Church of Laurel will lead the service. All are welcome.

Attendees are advised to wear weather-appropriate clothing, as the church, in keeping with its history, is not heated, electrified, painted or plumbed. 

Old Christ Church is one of only about a dozen churches along the Atlantic coast to survive unaltered from America’s pre-Revolutionary period. It was constructed on the banks of Chipman’s Pond, on lands once part of Pennsylvania and Maryland, between 1770 and 1772 by Robert Houston.

Also known as Old Lightwood, the church features original heart-of-pine plank walls, a tall paneled pulpit with a lower level clerk’s reading desk, high backed enclosed box-paneled pews with doors, and an unusual barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling.