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CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH

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1858; 1890s apse. 100 N. Randolph St.

After he became rector here in 1858, author and priest Joseph Holt Ingraham produced what his son called “dime novels of the Bible.” In 1860, the elder Ingraham killed himself with a pistol in the church’s vestry. The stucco-covered Gothic Revival church, with a few oversized classical dentils and an oval window above the entrance, has attached buttresses and along its side walls stained glass windows with hood molds and dedicated to victims of the 1878 yellow fever epidemic. Above the entrance, a wooden tower with corner pinnacles rises in stages to a wooden spire. The tray-ceiling nave has delicate hammer beam trusses with scalloped-edge members. The tracker organ, built by Henry Pilcher’s Sons of Louisville, dates to 1899.

Writing Credits

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

MARSHALL COUNTY COURTHOUSE AND COURTHOUSE SQUARE
EAST HOLLY SPRINGS RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD
HOUSES ON SALEM AVENUE
SOUTHWEST RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT
WALTER PLACE

Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH", [Holly Springs, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-NC11.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 146-146.

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