Holy Angels Church, Romanesque Revival church in Globe, Arizona, United States
Holy Angels Church at 231 S. Broad Street in Globe, Arizona, is a primarily Romanesque Revival church with Mission Revival influences, built of tufa stone on a reinforced concrete foundation. It measures 96 by 46 feet in plan and has a four-story bell tower whose belfry holds three bells cast in 1918 by the McShane Bell Foundry of Baltimore. Its stained glass windows were made by Emil Frei and Associates.
Holy Angels Church was built in 1916 to replace the wood-frame Sacred Heart Church, after Father Virgil Genevrier, a French-born priest, commissioned architect James S. Pigott of Newark, New Jersey. Genevrier served as his own contractor, and parishioners cut the tufa stone and raised the building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The stained glass windows were designed by Emil Frei Sr., founder of the Emil Frei Studios of St. Louis; his son Emil Frei Jr. later ran the firm and is often confused with him in the literature. The church also holds an organ built by the Wicks Organ Company of Highland, Illinois.
The church stands at 231 S. Broad Street in Globe, with the 1928 rectory next door. The four-story bell tower and its three McShane bells, cast in 1918, are best seen from outside; the bells were already unusable in 1983 because of their cradles. Visitors should time a stop around worship rather than during it.
The four-story bell tower holds three bells cast in 1918 by the McShane Bell Foundry of Baltimore, weighing 500, 300 and 200 pounds. By 1983 they had fallen silent because their cradles were in poor condition. The church also contains an organ built by the Wicks Organ Company of Highland, Illinois.
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