English United Presbyterian Church
Marietta, Lancaster County, PA
Architect: James H. Warner
Facade: Avondale marble from Chester County, PA.
Stone masons: William Hallman and George Bock
Today the building is the Susquehanna Stage.
Description in Our Present Past (1985)
By the Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County:
“English United Presbyterian Church, 133 West Market Street, [Marietta, PA]; 1853 / 1898 / 1909; two and one-half story, seven-bay stone / brick church combining First and Second Gothic Revival syles; 1853 brick section; 1898 western stone facade, designed by James H. Warner, architect for Lancaster’s Centeral Market; 1909 eastern facade, cast stone parapets at gable ends [lost]; square bell tower; lancet windows; ornamental belt course.” Our Present Past, page 240, Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County.
Built in Two Parts:
Above: Section on right: Large chapel: Gift of Dr. John H. Grove in 1898.
Section on left: Marble facing: Gift of Miranda Grove in 1909 (Widow of Dr. John H. Grove) She wanted this section of the original church to have this facade of Avondale marble, to match her deceased husband’s Avondale-marble chapel on the right.
Above: “A good tree produces good fruit.”
Matthew 7:17
Above: “A bad tree produces bad fruit.”
Matthew 7:17
Above: Marble monsters hiding in the tree of bad fruit
Source of Avondale Marble
on a Map of Chester County Bedrock:
Above: Avondale marble from Chester County is also known as Cockeysville marble. This marble appears on the bedrock geologic map of the Wilmington Quadrangle by Gale C. Blackmer, 2005. (Underscore lines added)
Above: Building Stones of Pennsylvania, by Ralph W. Stone, 1932.