Newtown Presbyterian Church

Stone Presbyterian church in Newtown, Bucks County, built in 1769 and remodeled in 1842, with a sessions house from about 1800 and a walled graveyard. The original building was a two-and-a-half-story stone structure by master mason Mathias Hutchinson, who used the floor plan he had earlier applied to the Buckingham Friends meeting house. The 1842 remodeling added a three-sided apse holding a new pulpit, Greek Revival pilasters and entablature, Doric-columned balconies and tall windows, and the building retains good integrity to that date. A Victorian porch and vestibules were added about 1880. The church is regarded as one of the best preserved examples of how Bucks County's earliest non-Quaker Protestant churches were enlarged during the first half of the nineteenth century. Its graveyard holds twenty-two graves of American Revolutionary War soldiers, and the sessions house is one of few pre-Civil War examples of its kind remaining in the county.