1824

The old St. Thomas Church was built between 1822 and 1824.



It bears the crest of Queen Victoria at the back of the sanctuary and still flies the English flag. The church served the congregation until Trinity Anglican was completed in 1877. This church still has box pews which would have been rented by families. Also, Paul (the historical rennovation painter) pointed out the Prisoners' Box at the front of the church where each week those imprisoned at the local courthouse a few blocks away would be brought to church in shackles, climb the ladder to the prisoners' box, the ladder removed and they were...in essence...captive to the worship service each week.(I have to wonder how many lives were reformed in this manner?)





The church's cemetery has several storied graves, including the wife of a rector thought to have been a witch. (Her stone turned black, and continues to turn black after being cleaned to this day. When we were there, it was black!)

My First Copyright!

So the web page you're looking at isn't really much to see. But it looks awefully good to me!!

I have my copyright in place with The Library of Congress and the U.S. Copyright Office for the photographs falling under the work "Churches of Webster County."

Since the book was never published and all materials were shot by me using my own camera equipment and I was never compensated for the photographs, the copyright belongs to me!

Yeah!!!!!! I breathed a huge sigh of relief today when I found that they had finally been added to the inventory of the Library of Congress.