Special ART@noon Spires in the Sun Art Walk

February 18, St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Hibernia and Grace Episcopal Church, Orange Park

10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST

Please note: This is a ticketed event ($10). Join us for two author talks on the Florida Carpenter Gothic Episcopal churches featured in the award-winning book, Spires in the Sun. There will be a Meet and Greet/Book Signing before and after the author events with Jonathan Rich.

Spires in the Sun is organized in two parts. Part I includes: a description of a typical Florida church of the “Carpenter Gothic” style; a recounting of the advent and growth of the Episcopal Church in Florida; biographies of Bishops Rutledge, Young and Weed, with a particular emphasis on Bishop Young and his working affiliations with architects Richard Upjohn, Frank Wills, Charles Haight, and Robert Schuyler; an explanation of relevant contemporary influences, such as the Oxford Movement, the Gothic Revival, and ecclesiology; and an examination of the prominent roles of women in campaigns to build the churches. Part II is divided into 39 chapters, each of which profiles a specific surviving 19th–century Carpenter Gothic Episcopal church in Florida. These chapters tell the story of how each church was dreamt of, planned, and built by its original mission members.

We will start at 10:00 a.m. at St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church, Hibernia (Fleming Island).

More information can be found here: https://jaxcathedralbooks.org/.