Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Jefferson, TX
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N 32° 45.386 W 094° 20.988
15S E 373557 N 3625091
Historical Marker: Built 1872 for congregation organized earlier. Once the largest Cumberland Church building in Texas. Has a specially cast bell. Painted clock faces on the steeple show the hours for Sunday School and morning and evening worship.
Waymark Code: WM1CF9T
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/12/2025
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National Register Survey Card 1979"Brick Gothic Revival church with one-story on raised basement and four-story tower with clock and octagonal spire. 46' (three-bay front) by 75' (five-bays) gabled roof, two-aisle plan with recessed chancel, central projecting entrance tower; corbeled cornice and decorative brick detailing; tower has round-arched windows with architrave trim and brick sills - side windows separated by slightly projecting buttresses are double-arched with pointed arched archivolt trim. Above the nerthex doors is a leaded-glass transom with colored etched glass in diamond pattern."
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