The Church Herald described the new building by contractor Jacob Larmour in 1854: “The Church is built of wood, as nearly gothic as the circumstances would admit. The building is plain and simple, but remarkably neat and church like.” Simple details create the vertical emphasis prized by ecclesiologists: board-and-batten siding, an axial square tower with pinnacles, and lancet windows.
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH", [Canton, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-JM3.
Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 229-229.
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