Tag: Kerr (Joseph)

  • Sewickley Presbyterian Church

    Sewickley Presbyterian Church

    This is one of the few remaining churches designed by Joseph W. Kerr, who was one of our top architects in the middle 1800s (he also designed the Shields Chapel nearby in Edgeworth). It opened in 1861, at the beginning of the Civil War.

    In Father Pitt’s opinion, Mr. Kerr had good taste. Both this church and the Shields Chapel belong to the middle nineteenth century, but they were never embarrassingly out of date; to the last gasp of the Gothic style in America a hundred years later, an architect familiar with the idiom would have found this a pleasing and successful design.

    Steeple

    It is fortunate that the congregation has the money to keep the glorious steeple in excellent shape…

    Detail of Tower

    …right up to the iron pinnacle at the top.

    Pinnacle
    Tower entrance
    Side entrance
    Side of the church
    Prespective view of the church
    Nikon COOLPIX P100.