St. Luke's Episcopal Church | |
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| Location | Cahaba, Alabama, United States |
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| Coordinates | 32°19′9″N 87°6′19″W / 32.31917°N 87.10528°W |
| Built | 1854, moved 1876 & 2006–2007 |
| NRHP reference No. | 82002008[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 25, 1982 |
St. Luke's Episcopal Church is a historic Carpenter Gothic church, built during the 1850s at Cahaba, the first capital of Alabama from 1820 to 1826. The unknown builder closely followed plans published by architect Richard Upjohn in his 1852 book Rural Architecture.[2]
Exterior features of the Gothic Revival structure include lancet windows, pointed arch doorways and vertical board and batten sheathing. The building originally had a square bell tower on the corner to the left of the current main front entrance, but this was not rebuilt when the church was relocated in 1878 to Martin's Station.[2] The church was disassembled and relocated to Cahaba in 2007, where it was reassembled at Old Cahawba Archaeological Park.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b Gamble, Robert Historic architecture in Alabama: a guide to styles and types, 1810–1930, page 83. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: The University of Alabama Press, 1990. ISBN 0-8173-1134-3.