St. Luke's Episcopal Church is a Gothic Revival building
designed according to the dictates of the Ecclesiological Society. The
Society held that proper Christian worship could take place only in churches
modeled after medieval English precedents. St. Luke's Parish consulted
several architects, including Robert Cary Long, Jr., John Notman and Frank
Wills, before selecting the Baltimore firm of Niernsee and Neilson. Services
were first held in the unfinished church in November 1853, while it would
take 15 more years until the building was completed. J. W. Priest, also
a proponent of the ecclesiological approach and a founder of the American
Institute of Architects, was hired in 1857 to repair structural problems
and complete the design and construction. The Gothic features of St. Luke's
include a clerestory and side aisles, lancet and rose windows, quatrefoil
tracery, buttresses and a crenelated tower.
St. Luke's Church is located at 217 North Carey Street, within the Franklin Square Historic District, at the northeast corner of the square. Public access is restricted. |
St.Luke's Church
Photo by William Morgan, National Register of Historic Places Close up of St. Luke's Church Photo by Jeff Joeckel, National Register of Historic Places |
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