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ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH

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1851–1854. 402 W. Commerce St.

This church is notable for its association with Joseph Holt Ingraham. Born in Portland, Maine, he found his way south, where he published The Southwest, by a Yankee (1835). Ordained as a priest in 1852, he began to build St. John’s. Ingraham wrote to his bishop in 1853, “There being no church architect here who had any knowledge of Gothic construction, I was compelled not only to be the draughtsman but contractor and architect of the building, erecting it with the aid of two young men and nine slaves.” Despite these complaints, St. John’s brick design is quite informed and follows English Gothic parish church models. Its dominant feature is the square entrance tower with attached buttresses, pointed-arch openings, and crenellations. The gable-roofed nave behind, which has lost its crenellated parapet, also has corner buttresses and has stained glass windows.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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What's Nearby

OLD HOMESTEAD
MONROE COUNTY CHANCERY BUILDING (U.S. COURTHOUSE AND POST OFFICE)
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "ST. JOHN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH", [Aberdeen, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PR7.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 176-176.

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