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FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

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c. 1956, Walk C. Jones Jr. 801 N. Fillmore St.

This modernist church complex is built around a large rectangular court, with the sanctuary to the south, meeting and administrative wings to the north and west, and a flat-roofed, partially screened portico to the east in which the church’s facade is embedded. Entry into the sanctuary vestibule, which is illuminated by lateral, gridded panels of stained glass, is made through pairs of doors at the base of more tall panels of stained glass, here overlaid with a Celtic cross and protected by a rigid-frame, steel portico. A taller, wider rigid frame supports the ceiling of the sanctuary, which is lit by continuous stained glass clerestories and stained glass panels alongside the chancel in the lower side aisles. A skeletal steel tower rises in three stages above. The nearby Fillmore Street Chapel (711 N. Fillmore) was erected in 1871 as the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH", [Corinth, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-NE10.

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Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 164-164.

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