St. Mary's Church of the Assumption (Praha, Texas)

Historic church in Texas, United States

United States historic place


St. Mary's Church of the Assumption
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

St. Mary's Church in 2008
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Location	FM 1295, Praha, Texas
Coordinates	29°40′11″N 97°4′0″W / 29.66972°N 97.06667°W / 29.66972; -97.06667
Area	less than one acre
Built	1895 (1895)
Architect	O. Kramer
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
MPS	Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR
NRHP reference No.	83003138
Added to NRHP	June 21, 1983

St. Mary's Church of the Assumption is a historic church on FM 1295 in Praha, Texas.

It was built in 1895 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Gottfried Flury, a Swiss-born artist from Moulton, TX, painted much of the interior. Using a combination of stenciling, infill painting, and freehand techniques, Flury's trompe-l'œil designs mimic stone vaults and Gothic tracery reminiscent of central European models. The ornate polychrome interior of St. Mary's Church of the Assumption is typical of the so-called "Painted Churches of Texas" constructed by immigrants who settled in the region in the nineteenth century.

Plan

The church has a rectangular plan consisting of a five-bay nave with side aisles terminated by a polygonal apse.

Gallery

South façade
Interior view looking toward apse
Interior
Interior painting, detail

Notes

"National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
"National Register of Historic Places Inventory—Nomination Form: Churches with Decorative Interior Painting TR" (PDF). National Park Service. 1983.
"The Painted Churches of Texas". www.klru.org. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
Harwood, Buie (1993). Decorating Texas : decorative painting in the Lone Star State from the 1850s to the 1950s. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press. p. 29. ISBN 9780875651149. OCLC 26930603.

External links

Media related to St. Mary's Church of the Assumption at Wikimedia Commons

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