St. Mary's Church of the Assumption is a historic church on FM 1295 in Praha, Texas.
St. Mary's Church of the Assumption | |
 St. Mary's Church in 2008 | |
  St. Mary's Church of the Assumption  St. Mary's Church of the Assumption | |
| Location | FM 1295, Praha, Texas |
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| Coordinates | 29°40′11″N 97°4′0″W / 29.66972°N 97.06667°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1895 |
| Architect | O. Kramer |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| MPS | Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 83003138[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 21, 1983 |
It was built in 1895 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[2] Gottfried Flury, a Swiss-born artist from Moulton, TX, painted much of the interior.[3] Using a combination of stenciling, infill painting, and freehand techniques, Flury's trompe-l'œil designs mimic stone vaults and Gothic tracery reminiscent of central European models.[4] The ornate polychrome interior of St. Mary's Church of the Assumption is typical of the so-called "Painted Churches of Texas" constructed by immigrants who settled in the region in the nineteenth century.
Plan edit
The church has a rectangular plan consisting of a five-bay nave with side aisles terminated by a polygonal apse.
Gallery edit
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South façade -
Interior view looking toward apse -
Interior -
Interior painting, detail
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR" (PDF). National Park Service. 1983.
- ^ "The Painted Churches of Texas". www.klru.org. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
- ^ Harwood, Buie (1993). Decorating Texas : decorative painting in the Lone Star State from the 1850s to the 1950s. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780875651149. OCLC 26930603.
Further reading edit
- Baker, T. Lindsay. Ghost Towns of Texas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
- Christensen, Carl J., and Pixie Christensen. Lone Star Steeples: Historic Places of Worship in Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016.
- Koenig, Jon Todd. Fayette County. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub, 2011.
External links edit
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