| Based on a design by Frank Wills of New York, a major architect of the ecclesiological movement, this building was begun about 1850 and completed about 1852. The supervising architect is thought to have been Jacob L. Larmour, from New York, who was living in Canton at the time. Consecrated in 1852. It was built as a memorial for John T. Johnstone, by his wife, Margaret. The chapel was listed on the National Register on 13 June 1972. It is included in the "Inventory of the Church Archives of Mississippi – Protestant Episcopal Church – Diocese of Mississippi" (1940) (#30, pp. 66-67), "White Pillars" (1941) (pp. 102-103), "Shrines to Tomorrow" (1971), "Historic Architecture in Mississippi" (1973) (pp. 80-81), "Jackson Landmarks" (1982) (pp. 134-135), "Architecture of the Old South: Mississippi – Alabama" (1989), "Architecture of the Old South" (summary volume) (pp. 271, 311), "The Majesty of Eastern Mississippi and the Coast" (2004) (pp. 37-38), "Historic Churches of Mississippi" (2007) (pp. 88-90), "Must See Mississippi" (2007) (pp. 69-73), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (pp. 231-232, JM10). It is also mentioned in "The Gothic Revival & American Church Architecture" (1968) (p. 293) and it is included in "Ecclesiological Gothic in the Antebellum South," Winterthur Portfolio 15:2 (September 1980) (pp. 131-133). [HABS: MS-17-3 (1934): measured drawings] |