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MAGEE CHURCH OF CHRIST

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1989, Mockbee and Coker. 312 8th Ave. SW

This church exemplifies Sam Mockbee’s approach to creating sturdy and architecturally bold buildings for groups who often lack the means to hire an architect. His design reconceives the once-ubiquitous gable-front rural church form, siding it with affordable and low maintenance ribbed metal that mimics the verticality of board-and-batten wood planks. On a large corner lot surrounded by commercial sprawl, the building faces east with a recessed central entrance. Baffled windows reduce outside distractions and generate an indirect glow inside, where wooden scissor trusses are exposed in the high ceiling. At the western end behind the pulpit a skylit tower floods the baptismal pool below with light.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "MAGEE CHURCH OF CHRIST", [Magee, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-PW7.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 304-305.

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