St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Episcopal church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church is a brownstone church at the corner of Eleventh Avenue and Twelfth Street South in Birmingham, Alabama. Built in 1915, it was designed by the local firm Joy & Marriott after English Gothic parish churches, with pointed-arch windows and a steeply pitched gabled roof.
St. Andrew's was founded in 1902 as a church school for children unable to reach the downtown Church of the Advent. Its first building, opened at Easter 1905, was destroyed by a tornado in March 1913. The cornerstone of the present church at Eleventh Avenue and Twelfth Street South was laid by Bishop Charles Beckwith on November 30, 1913, and the building was first used at Easter 1915. It joined the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Since the early 1940s St. Andrew's has grown into an Anglo-Catholic parish, emphasising the Eucharist and traditional liturgy; Father Robert Yancey Marlow strengthened this profile from 1951 to 1959. The "bells and smells" of older practice sit alongside the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and growing lay participation. Choral Evensong is sung on the second Sunday of each month, preceded by an organ prelude at 5:15 pm.
The church stands at the corner of Eleventh Avenue and Twelfth Street South, up Red Mountain from downtown Birmingham. Sunday Masses are at 8:00 am (spoken) and 10:30 am (sung with the parish choir); Choral Evensong falls on the second Sunday of each month at 5:30 pm, preceded by an organ prelude at 5:15 pm.
The brownstone building, designed by the local firm Joy & Marriott after English Gothic parish churches, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, not 1973. Its cornerstone was laid by Bishop Charles Beckwith on St. Andrew's Day, November 30, 1913.
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