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Sodus Point Christ Church, Episcopal

Historic Site #:12-078   (Exists)   Type: D,E1 Town:Sodus
Site Name:Sodus Point Christ Church, EpiscopalGPS Coordinates:43.27018, -76.98719
Address:8350 Bay Street Sodus Point New York 14555
Description:
Christ Church Chapel is a part of the Northeast Partners in Episcopal Ministry, a covenanted agreement among St Mark’s Church, Newark; St John’s Church, Sodus; Grace Church, Lyons; and the summer chapel Christ Church, Sodus Point, Services Sundays 9 AM from Memorial Day to Labor Day. https://www.episcopalchurch.org/parish/christ-church-sodus-point-ny

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Church Tour given by Al Fagan August 17, 2019Exterior, 2016 (used with permission of Loreen Jorgensen)
Exterior c1900 (courtesy of Episcopal Diocese of Rochester)Side lamps (used with permission of Loreen Jorgensen)
 
Historic narrative:

Organized in 1851, the chapel was built in 1861. The altar window came from the first building of Zion Episcopal in Palmyra, Two other windows were donated by descendants of Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh, aide-de-camp to General George Washington and early resident of Sodus Point. See: javascript:nicTemp(); 




 

It is reported that there were Episcopal Services in Sodus Point as early as 1818.  Maria Chew Fitzhugh, widow of Colonel Peregrine Fitzhugh, gave a  lot on the west side of Troup Park and Bay Street and $100.00 for an Episcopal Church requesting that its consecration should not take place before another church was built in the village, so that it might be free for preaching to any Christian minister when not in use by the parish.  Accordingly, after the Methodist Church was erected it was consecrated as Christ Church by Bishop Cox.  The church was organized May 3, 1851 and recorded in the county clerk’s office in 1860.  A window was erected to the memory of Colonel and Mrs. Fitzhugh by their grandson Colonel Charles G. Edwards who also gave one in memory of his parents William and Maria Fitzhugh Edwards

 The above information came from the 1974 Walking Tour of Sodus Point

 

 

 

In May 2011, an amazing and awe inspiring discovery was made concerning the  Cross on the steeple of the Episcopal Church and the recently placed murals on the firehall across the parking lot. To read about this click on the link below:

http://historicsoduspoint.com/blessing-of-the-murals/


You can watch a video of the shadow of the cross traversing the murals by clicking this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng71VySyhrw

 



References:

Historic Sodus Point web page

A History of the churches of Sodus. Lewis H Clark, Jr. 1926.

History of Christ Church, Sodus Point, New York. 1951?

Zion Episcopal Church, Palmyra, New York: From its beginning to the end of the 20th Century. Stuart E. Hotchkiss. 2008.

Sodus – 1901: an atlas and directory of the Town of Sodus and Sodus Bay. Ed. Lewis H. Clark, Jr. 1901.

Church Tour by Al Fagan on August 17, 2019