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Grace Episcopal Church

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1889. 1200 Oatman St.

Grace Episcopal Church is an example of the Southern church house type: a simple rectangular structure with a front-gabled roof, here built of local red sandstone. The coursing is roughly horizontal, but the stone blocks are not dressed square. In contrast, the arched entrance has well-cut jambs and voussoirs, as do the three paired, round-arched windows on the north wall of the nave.

On the next block, the First Christian Church (1888; 1105 Oatman Street) is also an example of the Southern vernacular church house type built in stone with a steep gabled roof. The granite is laid in a refined, random rectangular pattern. The projecting entrance is topped by a square, frame tower with a tall spire. Additions also used granite facing.

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Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Gerald Moorhead et al., "Grace Episcopal Church", [Llano, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-LL8.

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Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 272-272.

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