St. James Catholic Church is a

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Crosstown, Missouri Crosstown is an unincorporated settlement situated in Salem Township in Perry County, Missouri, United States, near the Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage ...

. It is operated as a mission church of the parish of St. Vincent de Paul in Perryville. It is under the jurisdiction of the Ste. Genevieve

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of the

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History

The original mission church started in a private home in 1860s. The frame church was begun in 1884 and finished in 1889. The church was restored after the fire of 1926. Archdiocese of Saint Louis: Parishes http://archstl.org/app/directory/parishes/1000178

References

Roman Catholic churches completed in 1889 Churches in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Churches in Perry County, Missouri Crosstown, Missouri 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States {{US-RC-church-stub