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ST. PAUL’S CATHOLIC CHURCH

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1956–1957, Edward A. Schulte. 717 Crawford St.

After a 1953 tornado damaged the congregation’s 1850 church (a twin to St. Mary Basilica [ND26] in Natchez), this modernist building, designed by a Cincinnati architect, replaced it. The church’s angular form—emphasized by tan brick finished so smoothly that the walls become planes—is relieved only by the vertical dashes of the stained glass windows and a striking octagonal bell tower, which concludes with a circular openwork bell house topped by a sphere. Inside, the tall nave with a single central aisle and chancel are lit mostly from one side by tall stained glass windows in modern designs by the Emil Frei studio of St. Louis.

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, "ST. PAUL’S CATHOLIC CHURCH", [Vicksburg, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-YB6.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 73-73.

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