Christ Church, Gothic Revival church in Church Hill, United States.
Christ Church is a brick building with Gothic features including narrow lancet windows and buttresses that break up the facade. The exterior is covered with stucco that creates the appearance of cut stone masonry.
The building was constructed in 1858 and incorporated bricks from an earlier chapel from 1829 that stood on the same site. This continuity shows a long history of use for worship.
Christ Church was built for Mississippi's first Episcopalian congregation, whose first meeting place was a log structure led by Rev. Adam Cloud, expelled by the Spanish for preaching in West Florida. Bricks from the congregation's 1829 second church were reused in the 1858 building, so the walls carry material from earlier worship on the site.
Christ Church stands on MS 553 in Church Hill, Jefferson County, Mississippi. The brick walls are finished in stucco scored to imitate ashlar masonry, originally salmon coloured, so look for the scored joints between the buttresses. The rectangular nave has four bays on each side, with narrow lancet windows set between the buttresses.
The bricks in its walls came from the congregation's second church, built in 1829; the first was a log structure raised under Rev. Adam Cloud, who had been expelled from the area by the Spanish for preaching there. Union Army soldiers occupied the church in 1864.
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