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St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church

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1893. 301 S. Parks St.

This Carpenter Gothic building is the oldest church continually in use in the Panhandle. Clad in horizontal weatherboards and painted white, it reflects an Episcopal parish church tradition. Entered through a corner tower, which has a witch’s-hat steeple, the nave is illuminated by a large Gothic-styled window at the rear, opposite the articulated chancel at the front. Like the courthouse (PH7), St. John’s demonstrates the early (1887) settlement of Clarendon, before picturesque conceptions of design began to change in favor of more formal and symmetrical ideas.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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What's Nearby

Donley County Courthouse
First United Methodist Church of Clarendon
Martin-Lowe House
Clarendon Motor Company Building

Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church", [Clarendon, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-PH9.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 365-365.

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