Shot of St Marks Anglican Church, Smith's Parish, Bermuda
Shot of St Marks Anglican Church, Smith's Parish, Bermuda 51 South Road. It is one of the Anglican Churches of Bermuda. It was named in 1857 after St. Mark, who wrote the second gospel. He accompanied St. Paul and St. Barnabas and later joined St. Paul in Rome. Tradition says he was put to death in Egypt by being dragged through the streets by the neck. He was buried in Alexandria, Egypt, but in the year 815 Venetian merchants carried his relics to Italy and a church, San Marco, was built to shelter them. He has been represented in art not only as being dragged by the neck but also as being strangled and - less violently - seated underneath a fig tree. The winged lion is his most widely used symbol. The cornerstone of the church was laid in 1847. It is a fine example of Gothic revival style. One of the most charming of the parish churches and its spire, designed by Dr Henry Hinson, one of the loveliest. Consecrated in 1849, it took the place of Harris’ Bay Church which stood on the site of the present graveyard from the early 1700s until 1846; a simple, silver chalice dated 1676 is a treasure left from the old church. Land for St. Mark’s was given by sisters, Sarah Trott and Mary Sears. When first built, the church was a plain, rectangular building with a gable roof and arched windows. It remained a country church until transformed under the leadership of The Reverend George Tucker and parishioner Jeremiah Scott Pearman, who made the care and ornamentation of the church his life’s work. They blessed the building of a Gothic tower, measuring more than one hundred feet, and an octagonal, buttressed spire, above which rose a cross. Julian Tucker, the chief mason, skillfully executed the work and later built a comparable steeple for St. Paul AME Church in Hamilton. The pews were made from mahogany logs washed ashore in the Turks Islands and later shipped aboard the HMS Beta to Bermuda. The altar, the exquisite reredos and pulpit, all made of cedar, were artistic.
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Location: St Marks Anglican Church, 51 South Road, Smith's Parish, Bermuda
Photo credit: © John Gaffen 2 / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: architecture, bermuda, christianity, church, faith, gothic, religion, worship
