St. Thomas' Church (Upper Marlboro, Maryland)
St. Thomas' Church is an Episcopal church in a rural setting, located at Croom, Prince George's County, Maryland. It is one of four congregations that have constituted the parish of St. Thomas in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, the others including the Church of the Atonement in Cheltenham, the Chapel of the Incarnation in Brandywine, and St. Simon's Mission also in Croom.
St. Thomas' Church - Front View, December 2008
Benedict Swingate Calvert, one of the founders of St Thomas' Church, painted by John Wollaston c1754.
St. Thomas' Church - Side View, December 2008
St. Thomas' Church - Claggett Memorial, December 2008
Croom is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Southern Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 2,720. Croom largely consists of former tobacco farms and forests converted to Washington bedroom subdivisions such as nearby Marlton. The main part of Patuxent River Park is in Croom.
The Patuxent River forms the eastern boundary of Croom