Locktown Stone Church is listed in the National Register for Historic Places for its significance in the areas of architecture and religion for the nineteenth century period. Erected in 1819 by the Kingwood Baptist congregation, the church is Hunterdon County’s earliest surviving, best-preserved example of the gable-fronted meeting house type that proliferated throughout the region from the late 1700s until the middle of the nineteenth century. Typical of the region’s early vernacular architecture, the building exhibits a combination of traditional building practices such as rubble-stone masonry and timber framing, and simple detailing derived from the classically based styles then popular. Over its two hundred-year history, Locktown Stone Church has undergone relatively little alteration, other than the replacement of the original pulpit with the present one sometime in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries and the removal of the stucco from the exterior stone walls sometime in the mid-1970s, prior to Delaware Township’s acquisition of the property.

The 2022 Trust grant will help fund a visitor amenity building and barrier-free improvements.

The 1996 Trust grant helped fund a new roof, interior lighting and heat, and restroom facilities. A previous grant helped fund interior and exterior restoration items.

For more information, visit: http://www.locktownstonechurch.org