A few weeks ago, I did "the big loop," leaving from Baltimore in the morning and circling counter-clockwise over to the Shore and returning to Baltimore late in the day. It was about 200 miles in total, but it was a gorgeous spring day, and I had a route plotted out, so it was a lot of fun.
One of the churches on the list was St. Luke's in Church Hill in Queen Anne's County. It was built between 1729 and 1732, with the brick exterior walls laid in Flemish bond with glazed headers, something that I eventually found to be a common style.
The church originally had three entrances, one each on the north and south sides and a smaller slaves' entrance on the west side.
While the gambrel roof is distinctive, the semi-circular apse is something I saw at numerous churches of the same age. What is unusual about St. Luke's apse is that it also has a gambrel roof. The church originally had a bell-tower, but that was removed only ten years after it was built.
Again, as with many other churches, the interior of St. Luke's features a barrel-vault ceiling. The pews are not the box style, but are set in rows. St. Luke's is one of the oldest continuously-operating churches on the Eastern Shore.
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