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The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd is an historic Carpenter Gothic style
/ref> On December 15, 1975, Good Shepherd became the second building in Berkeley to be named an ''Historic Landmark''. On December 1, 1986, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Church of the Good Shepherd-Episcopal.
William Countryman's webpage
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Church of the Good Shepherd website
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The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Episcopal
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church building located at 1001 Hearst Street at Ninth Street (1823 Ninth Street) in Berkeley, California. Built in 1878, it was designed in the Carpenter Gothic style of architecture by architect Charles L. Bugbee who was associated with his father Samuel C. Bugbee in the San Francisco firm of S. C. Bugbee & Son. Charles L. Bugbee patterned it after the Carpenter Gothic style Mendocino Presbyterian Church
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The Mendocino Presbyterian Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style Presbyterian church building located at 44831 Main Street, in Mendocino, California. Built of coast redwood, it sits on the Mendocino headlands overlooking th ...
, which the firm had designed in 1867. While all of the Mendocino church's exterior walls are of board and batten
A batten is most commonly a strip of solid material, historically wood but can also be of plastic, metal, or fiberglass. Battens are variously used in construction, sailing, and other fields.
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siding, only the upper walls of Good Shepherd are board and batten while the lower walls are of Dutch lap weatherboarding. Both churches feature tall side-entrance bell towers, steep gabled roofs and lancet window
A lancet window is a tall, narrow window with a pointed arch at its top. It acquired the "lancet" name from its resemblance to a lance. Instances of this architectural element are typical of Gothic church edifices of the earliest period. Lancet wi ...
s, but according to writer Daniella Thompson: "...the Church of the Good Shepherd is considerably more ornate and playful than its severe Presbyterian model, ..."Thompson, Daniella, Berkeley Heritage: Church of the Good Shepherd, Episcopal/ref> On December 15, 1975, Good Shepherd became the second building in Berkeley to be named an ''Historic Landmark''. On December 1, 1986, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Church of the Good Shepherd-Episcopal.
Current status
The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd is still an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of California. The current priest-in-charge is the Reverend Este Gardner Cantor. Its associate pastor is the well-known theologian William Countryman./ref>
References
External links
Church of the Good Shepherd website
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