This church is named for the saint known as St. James the Greater, but architecturally it follows the example of St. James the Less Church (1846–1848) in Philadelphia, an American version of a thirteenth-century English parish church, St. Michael's in Long Stanton, Cambridgeshire. The design follows the dictates of the Ecclesiologists, a group proposing Gothic as the proper style for church design during the 1840s and 1850s. Bedford's
Lu Donnelly et al., "St. James Episcopal Church", [Bedford, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-01-BD4.
Buildings of Pennsylvania: Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, Lu Donnelly, H. David Brumble IV, and Franklin Toker. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010, 375-376.
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