Saint Augustine Church | |
---|---|
44°15′29.7″N72°34′31.7″W / 44.258250°N 72.575472°W Coordinates: 44°15′29.7″N72°34′31.7″W / 44.258250°N 72.575472°W | |
Location | Montpelier |
Country | United States |
Denomination | Catholic Church |
Website | Official website of St. Augustine Parish |
Architecture | |
Architectural type | Gothic Revival |
Completed | 1903 |
Clergy | |
Pastor(s) | Fr. Augustinowitz |
St. Augustine's Catholic Church | |
Part of | Montpelier Historic District (Vermont) (ID78000246 [1] ) |
Added to NRHP | November 3, 1978 |
Saint Augustine Church is a Roman Catholic church dedicated to Saint Augustine and located on Barre Street in Montpelier, Vermont. [2]
The first Catholic mass in Montpelier was celebrated by the "Apostle of Vermont", Father Jeremiah O'Callaghan in the autumn of 1830. The first members of the parish were French Canadians.
Mass was celebrated at parishioners houses' for the first two decades. In 1850, the old courthouse was purchased, and mass was celebrated there for nine years.
In 1850 a Québecois priest, the Reverend Hector Drolet, moved to Montpelier to become the first resident Catholic priest in the city. He also needed to find a site for a permanent Roman Catholic church in the city. Drolet purchased a small former brick court house on Court Street, located about 300 yards east of the Vermont State House. The old courthouse had been replaced by the new Washington County Court House on State Street.
The Vermont General Assembly in its 1850 session agreed to sell additional land to the north of the court building so the parish could construct a vestry. The former courthouse was renovated and used as a church until 1859. Drolet left Montpelier in 1854 to return to Québec. He was replaced by Father Maloney and Father Coopman.
In 1856 Father Druon arrived, becoming pastor, and built a larger church immediately east of the former court house. The new brick church with a double steeple opened in 1859 and was able to accommodate 900, serving as the parish church until the current one was erected. [3] The small church in the former court house was converted to a rectory.
The cornerstone for the present church building was laid on July 4, 1892, and the first mass was celebrated at Easter in the new church in 1903. The new St. Augustine church was built in the Gothic Revival style of rusticated gray Vermont granite, with a slate roof, and a detached circular vestry in the northeast corner. The original interiors were rich in finish, with elongated neogothic columns, lancet arches, polychrome stenciling on walls and ceilings in warm gray, madder rose, olive green and gold; stained glass, and paintings by Vermont artist Thomas Waterman Wood. A large central altar was flanked by two smaller side altars and the podium was located midway in the nave. The local newspaper at the time, the Montpelier Daily Journal, said of the newly constructed place of worship, "They have built a sanctuary that will be a joy and an inspiration not only to them, but to their children and their children's children for generations to come." [3] The south facade has three entries; above the center entrance is a large rose window with a lancet pediment. Two towers flank the central entrance. The taller tower, on the eastern side, was not completed as designed. Instead of having a spire and parapet, it was capped with a low hip roof.
From 1968–69 a renovation of interior space, partly intended to respond to Vatican II changes in liturgy, removed the three original altars, chandeliers, and ornate mid-nave pulpit. The neogothic columns were encased in a contemporary form of white drywall; the ornamental wall stencilling and walls were painted over in white; and the floors were covered in turquoise blue synthetic carpeting. Most of the church's sculpture was removed. The polychrome cast-plaster stations of the cross were repainted in a monochrome gray color scheme, possibly intended to effect the look of stone.
For main article, please see Saint Monica's Church, Barre
The first mass in Barre was held at the old town hall in 1881 by a priest from Saint Augustine's. In 1887, Saint Monica's Church was built, so the mission to Barre begot a church which eventually outgrew Saint Augustine's. [4] Saint Monica was the mother of Saint Augustine.
The parish of Saint Augustine's is also host to Saint Michael's Elementary School, which is now the Montpelier campus of the Central Vermont Catholic School, a result of the merger between Saint Monica's School and Saint Michael's. [5]
Saint Augustine's owns a cemetery located on Lincoln Avenue in Montpelier which is one of three in the city. [6]
The Cathedral Church of St Marie is the Roman Catholic cathedral in Sheffield, England. It lies in a slightly hidden location, just off Fargate shopping street, but signals its presence with a tall spire. It is an especially fine example of an English Roman Catholic Cathedral, with much fine interior decoration. Re-ordering of the Sanctuary following the Second Vatican Council, has been sensitive. There are several particularly notable side altars, as well as historic statues and painted tiles.
John Augustus Tolton, baptized Augustine Tolton, was the first Catholic priest in the United States publicly known to be Black.
The Oxford Oratory Church of St Aloysius Gonzaga is the Catholic parish church for the centre of Oxford, England. It is located at 25 Woodstock Road, next to Somerville College. The church is served by the Congregation of the Oratory.
St. Paul's Parish, K Street is a parish of the Episcopal Church in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. It is known for being one of the earlier Anglo-Catholic churches in the United States.
Saint Monica's Church is a Roman Catholic parish in the city of Barre, Vermont. It is in the Diocese of Burlington. The congregation dates from the original settlement of Barre in the 19th century, and its present building dates from the late 1880s.
Saint Thomas the Apostle is an Episcopal church in Hollywood, California.
St. Mary is a Roman Catholic church in Norwalk, Connecticut, part of the Diocese of Bridgeport. As the first Catholic Church in Norwalk from which three other parishes developed, St. Mary's is considered the Mother Church of Norwalk.
The Parish Church of St Mary and St Augustine in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, is home to a congregation of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nottingham. St Augustine's was designed in a "robust High Victorian Early English" style by George Goldie, one of the foremost Catholic architects in England in the nineteenth century. It was built over 1862-64 and while much of its Victorian interior was stripped out in the middle decades of the twentieth century, it still retains some furnishings and fittings of distinction.
The Sub-Parish Church of Santo Cristo, also known as "Apo Kristo" Chapel and Visita ng Sto. Cristo, is the oldest "ermita" (chapel) in Baliuag, Bulacan, Philippines. The visita is bounded by the cities of San Fernando and Mabalacat in Pampanga, and Balanga in Bataan. At present, its mother Parish, the Saint Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag, Bulacan, has 4 parishes.
The Saint Augustine Parish Church of Baliuag, commonly known as Baliuag Church, is a Roman Catholic church located in Plaza Naning at the poblacion of Baliuag, in Bulacan province, Philippines. The church is a parish church of the Diocese of Malolos, which is a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Manila.
The Santa Monica Parish Church, commonly known as the Minalin Church, is a Baroque church, located in poblacion area of San Nicolas in Minalin, Pampanga, Philippines. The church, built during the Spanish era, was declared a National Cultural Treasure by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts and the National Museum of the Philippines on August 27, 2011, one of 37 churches in the country bestowed that honor.
The Roman Catholic Church of Saint Ignatius Loyola is a heritage-listed church at 46 Grove Street, Toowong, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by architect John Francis Hennessy, junior, and built from 1929 to 1936 by Concrete Construction (QLD) Limited. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 12 July 2005.
St. Thomas Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Town of Underhill, Vermont in the United States, located in the unincorporated village of Underhill Center.
George H. Guernsey was an American architect from Montpelier, Vermont.
Our Lady of Consolation or Mary, Consoler of the Afflicted is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It dates back to the second century and is one of her earliest Marian titles of honor. The title Comforter of the afflicted is also used as an invocation in the Litany of Loreto.
St Augustine's Catholic Church in the Salisbury Catholic Parish forms part of the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide. Located in the northern suburbs of the city of Adelaide, South Australia, the parish's boundaries roughly coincide with the limits of the City of Salisbury.
The Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, is a progressive and inclusive Episcopal parish church in the liberal Anglo-Catholic tradition. It is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania and is located in the Philadelphia Main Line.
St Augustine's Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Hammersmith, London, England. It is a Romanesque revival style church and was built in 1916. It is located on Fulham Palace Road, south of the Hammersmith Flyover. It was founded by Augustinian Friars from St Monica's Church in Hoxton who continue to serve the church.
Holy Family Church is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus, in the Franklinton neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio. The congregation was founded in 1877 and the current church was completed in 1889. The Mercerdarians took over pastoral care of the church in 2022.
Merrill, Perry H. Montpelier; the Capital City's History 1780-1976. Self-published. Printed by Northlight Studio Press.