. Fenimore Cooper's grave and Christ churchyard . ve, exclusive of the present transept andchancel, constituted the original church. Tallwhite columns within the nave supported the roofuntil 1840, when the heavy brackets of native oakwere constructed to sustain it, and a Gothic stylebegan to be affected in the renewal of interiorwoodwork and a reshaping of the windows. Thechanges may be best understood by reference tothe model of the original church which stands inthe vestry room. This model was constructedby Mr. G. Pomeroy Keese, who died in the cen-tennial year of the parish, and having been
. Fenimore Cooper's grave and Christ churchyard . ve, exclusive of the present transept andchancel, constituted the original church. Tallwhite columns within the nave supported the roofuntil 1840, when the heavy brackets of native oakwere constructed to sustain it, and a Gothic stylebegan to be affected in the renewal of interiorwoodwork and a reshaping of the windows. Thechanges may be best understood by reference tothe model of the original church which stands inthe vestry room. This model was constructedby Mr. G. Pomeroy Keese, who died in the cen-tennial year of the parish, and having been w^ardenfor some years and vestryman for more thanhalf a century was better informed than anyoneelse concerning the first one hundred years of thechurchs life; nor had the church and churchyardever a more devoted lover. The transept was constructed in 186-1-, and thepresent chancel was added in 1891 as a memorialof Mrs. Jane R. A. Carter. The interior of thechurch is rich in memorials of those who haveworshipped within its walls. The Altar, with. The Church 69 reredos, of Caen stone, was erected in 1910 inmemory of the Rev. Philip A. H. Brown, latevicar of S. Johns chapel, Varick Street, New York,and formerly rector in Cooperstown, where hewas greatly beloved. The font, the earliest memorial placed in thechurch, commemorates ^Ir. Theodore Keese, war-den of the parish, who died in 1858. Superimposedupon the font and embedded in such wise that itholds the water used in Holy Baptism, is theoriginal baptismal bow^l that w-as used in thechurch by the first rector. The bowl was givento the church by the Hon. Elijah H. Metcalf, amember of the original vestry, and after beingdiscarded for half a century, during which it wasput to various uses, the relic was restored to thechurch by Mrs. Sophia E. Blodgett, granddaughterof the donor. The organ, erected in 1909, is a memorial ofthe Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D., seventhbishop of New York, who, during the summersof his latter years, reg
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