St. John's Episcopal Church is a historic
Episcopal
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church located on the village green in the village of Highgate Falls in
Highgate, Vermont
Highgate is a town in Franklin County, Vermont, United States. The population was 3,472 at the 2020 census. The town is on the Canada–US border and is a border town with Philipsburg, Quebec.
History
Highgate was named after Highgate in Engl ...
, in the United States. Built 1829–30, it is prominent local example of a Federal style church with Gothic Revival features. On September 3, 1976, it was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
Architecture and history
St. John's Episcopal Church stands on the east side of the village green in Highgate Falls, near the southern end of the elongated green. It is a single-story brick building, with a gabled roof. The front facade is three bays wide, with Gothic-arched windows flanking a central projecting gabled entry. The double-door entrance is topped by a fanlight, and there is a Palladian window with an arched center above. In the gable of the projection is a Federal style louvered fan. A square tower rises, set astride the boundary between the main roof and the projection. It has a round panel in the first stage, and the second stage is an octagonal louvered belfry.
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The church was built between 1829 and 1830 by Joel Whitney of
Enosburg, and was consecrated on May 21, 1834, by the Rt. Rev.
John Henry Hopkins
John Henry Hopkins (January 30, 1792 – January 9, 1868) was the first bishop of Episcopal Diocese of Vermont and the eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He was also an artist (in both watercolor and ...
, the first bishop of the
Episcopal Diocese of Vermont
The Episcopal Diocese of Vermont is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in the state of Vermont. It was the first diocese in the Episcopal Church to elect a woman, Mary Adelia Rosamond McLeod, as diocesan bishop.
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. Its design is similar to a plan found in
Asher Benjamin
Asher Benjamin (June 15, 1773July 26, 1845) was an American architect and author whose work transitioned between Federal architecture and the later Greek Revival architecture. His seven handbooks on design deeply influenced the look of cities a ...
's ''The Country Builder's Assistant'', a design book of Federal architecture, but it has been modified with Gothic features.
[ The congregation was a full parish until 1896. Since then it has been under the jurisdiction of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton, whose current rector is the Rev. John R. Spainhour.][
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See also
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* St. John's Episcopal Church (disambiguation)
References
External links
St. John's homepage
Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Swanton website
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Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Vermont
Episcopal churches in Vermont
Buildings and structures in Highgate, Vermont
Federal architecture in Vermont
Churches completed in 1830
19th-century Episcopal church buildings
Churches in Franklin County, Vermont
1830 establishments in Vermont
National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, Vermont