Old Tennent Church

Patriots fought and won victory over the British close by in the Battle of Monmouth.

The congregation was formed in 1692 by a group of Scottish Dissenters who had fled their homeland to escape James II's severe persecution for their beliefs.

It has occupied the current building since 1751, and the structure has undergone little fundamental change.

[1] In 1920, the officers and members of the congregation erected a monument to those who had given their lives in The Great War.

An additional verse was engraved apparently years later: "This monument is erected by the Membership and Officers of the Old Tennent Church and Cemetery in grateful memory of the Soldiers and Sailors of Monmouth County who served in the Great War, many of whom lie in unknown graves in foreign lands, and in order that the names of the lamented fallen shall be preserved in this sacred and historic place, where their relatives, friends and visitors my see that, after having made the supreme sacrifice for their country, they are not forgotten."