
This, the first church in James Edward Flanders’s signature Gothic Revival style, punctuates its prominent site with a massive corner tower and hexagonal spire. Two shorter towers with pyramidal roofs at the outer corners of the Akron-plan church bracket gabled wings facing Wesley and Washington streets. The towers and gables work in unison with pointed-arched windows and highly detailed, textured brick masonry to create a balanced composition that also achieves soaring verticality. This is Flanders’s most polychromatic work, using red brick and cream-colored stone. The attached school building in red brick has continuous stone stringcourses that tie together the low-pointed-arched windows and a most unusual pattern of geometrically patterned, inset brickwork. This is the oldest surviving church building in Greenville.