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Presbyterian in Oxford (Mississippi)
Presbyterian in Oxford (Mississippi)
College Hill Presbyterian Church (PCA), College Hill Road, +1 662 234-5020. The church was originally organized in 1835. The building, built using slave labor and bricks fired on the grounds, was completed in 1846. It is the oldest church building in the Oxford area. During the Civil War, the surrounding community of College Hill was invaded by Union General Sherman and his troops in 1862, who occupied the grounds of the church and used the church building itself for sleeping quarters. William Faulkner was married here in 1929. The original structure and furnishings remain remarkably unchanged. The pulpit, pews and pew gates are original to the structure. The only major structural changes to the original structure were: 1) the addition of a veneer of modern brick which covers the structure's original exterior bricks (though the original brickwork is still viewable at a view points on the east side of the church exterior where some of the modern bricks were purposefully left un-mortored and can be temporarily removed to "peek" at the original bricks beneath), 2) the modern addition of office space in the rear of the structure, and 3) the removal of the building's slave galley (a balcony reserved for slaves to sit in during church services). The exterior doors which once led to the galley, however, still remain, floating ominously above the main entrance to the church, sans stairs.
First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), 924 Van Buren Avenue, +1 662 234-1757. The first Presbyterian congregation in the town of Oxford was organized in 1837 by early settlers of Scottish descent. The church's orginal 1847 wood frame building fell casualty to the flames of 1864 (when the courthouse, it's square and other buildings and homes in town were burned by federal troops). The current building was built in 1881. Sunday worship services are at 8:30AM and 11:00AM.
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