The church of St Thomas, the Apostle and Howard-Flaget House is a historic Roman Catholic church and home located at Bardstown, Nelson County, Kentucky. The church is a brick, cross-shaped plan with a round apse. It was designed by Baltimore architect Maximilian Godefroy and built 1813–1816. It closely resembles Godefroy's earlier St. Mary's Seminary Chapel in Baltimore, another Sulpician church. St. Thomas is the oldest Roman Catholic church in Kentucky and considered "The Cradle of Catholicism in Kentucky." St. Thomas Roman Catholic Church and Howard-Flaget House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. References External links Saint Thomas Parish website Roman Catholic churches completed in 1816 National Register of Historic Places in Bardstown, Kentucky Historic American Buildings Survey in Kentucky 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States Roman Catholic churches in Kentucky Churches in Nelson County, Kentucky 1816 establishments in Kentucky Houses completed in 1816 Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Kentucky Houses in Nelson County, Kentucky Clergy houses in the United States