Grub Hill, as it is known, is a picturesque and idiosyncratic Gothic Revival brick country church. The facade's pointed-arched window, set inside a rectangle, is flanked by two rectangular doors. At the corners of the church are brick buttresses with pinnacles pierced by cross insets. Below the stepped brick cornice of the side walls is a stringcourse that frames the top portions of the church's rectangular, diamond-paned windows. On the interior, a rear gallery overlooks the nave and the sanctuary. The sanctuary's triptych (1870) is signed by carver “H. Jacob,” who also made the church furniture. In the 1870s, an iron fence featuring posts with spiraling floral vines was installed around the church and the graveyard. Surrounding the churchyard is farmland complete with a veritable catalogue of twentieth-century barns and silos.
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St. John's Episcopal Church, Grub Hill
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