Warren Baptist Church

The value of the Warren Baptist Church is found in its being representative of a typical Baptist country church built in Cumberland County during the mid to late nineteenth century. The symmetrical, wooden church has a medium-pitched roof and a pedimented front gable. The characteristic symmetry is evident in the church’s three-bay façade and the three large rectangular windows that line each side of the boxy church. It was built in the meeting house tradition, and it is modestly and simply decorated with Classical Revival and Gothic Revival elements. Its Classical Revival temple-like architecture is adorned with a wide frieze, and heavy, prominent pilasters framing the two entries and acting as corner boards. Of note are the Gothic Revival subtle labels crowning every window, and the diamond-shaped tracery decorating the triangular window in pedimented front gable. The triangular shape of this window is echoed in the pointed arch above the two front entries, and the upper edges of the three triangles are accentuated with scalloped bargeboard.