First Congregational Church of Cheshire

Built in 1827, it was designed by David Hoadley and is a prominent local example of Federal period architecture.

It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior.

Its front facade has a projecting four-column temple front, with round fluted columns rising to Ionic capitals and a fully pedimented gable.

Straddling the projecting and the main roof is a tower, with a square base section housing a clock, two octagonal stages (one of which houses an open belfry), and a conical steeple ending in a cross.

All six churches have front porticos with four fluted columns, the doors of all six have the same dimensions, all six steeples are of the same design and are surmounted by weathervanes that appear to have been cast from one mold, and all six churches have twenty-over-twenty double-hung windows.

Church and surrounding Green