Sacred Heart Catholic Church and School is a historic church and school at 503 North Queen Street in

Palestine, Texas Palestine ( ) is a city in and the seat of Anderson County in the U.S. state of Texas. It was named for Palestine, Illinois, by preacher Daniel Parker, who had migrated from that town. The city had a 2020 U.S. census population of 18,544, mak ...

. Built between 1890 and 1893, the structure was designed by prominent Texas architect

Nicholas J. Clayton Nicholas Joseph Clayton (November 1, 1840 in Cloyne, County Cork – December 9, 1916) was a prominent Victorian era architect in Galveston, Texas. Clayton constructed many grand religious and public buildings in Galveston including the Firs ...

. It replaced an earlier Catholic church that was destroyed by fire. It served the railroad workers stationed in Palestine, which had a large depot of the

International–Great Northern Railroad The International – Great Northern Railroad (I&GN) was a railroad that operated in the U.S. state of Texas. It was created on September 30, 1873, when the International Railroad and the Houston and Great Northern Railroad merged. The rail ...

. The railway deeded the site to Bishop Dubuis of the Diocese of Galveston. The bricks were locally made from mud from the Trinity River. It is the best example of

Victorian Gothic Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

architecture in North East Texas. Additional plots of land were acquired in the years after the church was built. The diocese added a parochial school and a cemetery. It was built in 1968. The church and school were added to the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 1979.

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Roman Catholic churches in Texas Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas Gothic Revival church buildings in Texas 1890s architecture in the United States Churches in Anderson County, Texas National Register of Historic Places in Anderson County, Texas Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks {{Texas-church-stub

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