Holy Rosary Church (Manton, Kentucky)

	Holy Rosary Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Holy Rosary Church, 2012
Nearest city	Springfield, Kentucky
Coordinates	37°42′47″N 85°23′15″W / 37.71306°N 85.38750°W
Area	0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built	1844
MPS	Washington County MRA
NRHP reference No.	88003409
Added to NRHP	February 10, 1989

Holy Rosary Church was a parish erected in 1844 in the small community of Manton (also known as Blincoe) in Washington County, Kentucky, United States.^[2] The church was built under the direction of the Dominicans.

Parish and worship space origination

The cornerstone for Holy Rosary Church, a Roman Catholic church in Manton was laid November 2, 1844.^[3] The original church is not the one that is on this site. A few years later, in 1848, a new church was built. This, the present building, was blessed on November 19, 1848. The building was built of brick with an overall size of 20 x 60 feet.

Pastors

One of the first pastors was Rev. Julian Timoleum Pieters.^[4] Records also show Fr. Edward Lynch was an early pastor, who was stationed at Holy Cross between 1866 and 1883. The current parish administrator is Fr. Matthew Hardesty. The new and current pastor is, Fr. Michael Martin.

The parish today

In 1883, a church was built at nearby Fredericktown (also known as 'the Burg'). The parish is a mission church to one at Fredericktown, Kentucky. The parish is within the Diocese of Louisville. There are about 200 parishioners.

This historic building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
^ Washington County, Annette C. DuPont-Ewing, Arcadia Publishing
^ Washington County, Kentucky Bicentennial History 1792-1992Turner Publishing Company, 1991. ISBN 1-56311-014-8
^ A History of Kentucky and Kentuckians: The Leaders and Representative Men, E. Polk Johnson, The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago-New York, 1912