St. Mary's Episcopal Church (Fayette, Missouri)

St. Mary's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri located at 104 West Davis Street in Fayette, Howard County, Missouri. The Gothic Revival style church structure was built in 1849, and is a small rectangular one-story structure constructed of vertical board and batten on a brick foundation. It measures 18 feet by 50 feet with an additional vestibule area which measures 8 feet by 10 feet.[2]:2

St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Location104 W. Davis St.
Fayette, Missouri
Coordinates39°8′46″N 92°41′6″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1849
ArchitectNipper, W.H.
Architectural styleGothic Revival
NRHP reference No.82003139[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 9, 1982

The Episcopal Church came to Missouri two years before the creation of the state, in the person of the Rev. John Ward, who arrived in St. Louis in 1819. It was not until 1835, however, in the General Convention of the Church in Philadelphia that the Missionary Diocese of Missouri was created, and as its first Bishop, the Rev. Jackson Kemper, was consecrated.[3]

In August 1836 the Rev. Fredrick Foote Peake, a deacon, was appointed Missionary for Central Missouri following an earlier visit to the area by Bishop Kemper. Rev. Peake was sent to Boonville. This community, along with the thriving village of Franklin (located across the Missouri River and the second largest community in Missouri), and Fayette (the newly created seat of Howard County) contained a number of people of the Episcopal Church.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Noelle Soren (August 1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: St. Mary's Episcopal Church" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-01-01. (includes 8 photographs from 1982)
  3. A History of St. Mary's Church, Episcopal George Allen Vaughan June, 1969


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