Pensacola’s Old Christ Church

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Old Christ Church is the anchor of the Historic Pensacola Village. Its plain Norman-Gothic exterior is matched by an interior strongly influenced by the Carpenter Gothic style favored in the lumber-rich Old South.

Finished in 1832 for an Episcopal parish, it is one of Florida’s oldest standing churches and still is used for some religious services, especially weddings.

Our tour took us inside the beautiful old sanctuary today to visit the same place I remember seeing as a small child, when it was used to store records of the City of Pensacola

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Published by Robert Craig Waters

Robert Craig Waters is a Florida writer. After leaving journalism in the early 1980s, he worked as an attorney, communications director, and public spokesman for the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee for 35 years. He grew up on a family farm in Beulah, Florida, not far from the Alabama border, before attending Brown University in the 1970s. His mother's family traces its roots to Weaverville, North Carolina. His father's family is from the small village of Burnt Corn, Alabama, where Mr. Waters spent part of his childhood.

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