Church of Our Saviour

The Reverend John Henry Hopkins Jr., the multitalented rector of Christ Church, Williamsport ( LY13), designed this frame Stick Style church. Boldly articulated framing members and long vertical boards, an elongated bell-cote, and a sharply peaked vestibule give the small church a tall and imposing presence on a crowded residential street. The church's small size dictated its nave plan. The railing, rood screen with a large cross, and altar with carved pinnacles, saints’ statues, and linenfold panels indicate Hopkins's High Church allegiances, as does the British spelling of “Saviour.” Hopkins designed two other area churches: a stone church also with a vertical-board upper section for Wadleigh Chapel (later St. Mary's Church) in Williamsport, and, in Upper Fairfield Township, the Church of the Good Shepherd, which lost Hopkins's elements, except for the stone walls, in a fire in the 1890s.