A TALK ON CHURCH ARCHITECTURE
Greetings, blog reader, on Friday, January 27, 2023. I still have no news to relay about the schism in SC. The SC Supreme Court has been sitting on the three petitions before them since last September. The justices must decide the dispositions of three parishes in question, Old St. Andrew's, Holy Cross (Stateburg), and Good Shepherd. So far not a peep from the court. Likewise, the two dioceses have released nothing new in the last couple of weeks about settlements. So, we have no choice but to bide our time and await announcements from Columbia and Charleston as they occur.
On another topic completely unrelated to the above, I recently gave a talk to my local historical society about the history of my local church, St. Luke's, of Jacksonville AL. I made a video of 56 minutes as part of that and I will share it with you in case you are interested in church architecture.
St. Luke's was designed by Richard Upjohn, the architect of Trinity Church, Wall St., NYC. It is from his 1852 pattern book, Upjohn's Rural Architecture. While not exactly by the pattern, it is remarkably close and has been very well preserved and maintained. The building was constructed in 1856, all of heart-of-pine. There were seven Upjohn churches built in Alabama before the Civil War, five still standing. St. Luke's is the truest and best kept of these.
So, if you care about church buildings at all, you might enjoy my little tour of St. Luke's.
