St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Catholic church in Loxley, United States.
St. Patrick's Catholic Church is a single-storey, six-bay church at the corner of U.S. Highway 90 and Loxley Avenue in Loxley, Alabama. It has a gable roof, a two-storey tower with a hipped roof, and chamfered concrete corners. Three buttresses divide each side, and the apse has a narrow curved window under a smaller gable roof.
The building was constructed in 1924 to serve Catholic workers who had migrated from the Midwest to this area. It received recognition on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The building was originally dedicated to Saint Raphael, one of four small mission churches in central Baldwin County serving Catholic immigrant workers, many from the Midwest. In 1974 that congregation merged with those of St. Gabriel in Summerdale, St. Matthew in Elsanor and Infant Jesus of Prague in Silverhill into the new parish of St. Patrick, based in Robertsdale. The former church is now the Loxley Public Library.
The building stands at the junction of U.S. Highway 90 and Loxley Avenue, on the east side of the highway. It is a single-storey structure entered through the tower's double wooden door, now the door of the Loxley Public Library, so visits are possible during library opening hours.
The structure was originally known as St. Raphael before it took its current name. It was part of a group of four mission churches that later consolidated into the St. Patrick parish now based in Robertsdale.
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