Mount Calvary Church
| Mount Calvary Church, Baltimore | |
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| Location | 816 N Eutaw St, Baltimore, Maryland, 21201 |
| Country | United States |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Previous denomination | Episcopal Church |
| Churchmanship | Anglican Use |
| Website | www |
| History | |
| Relics held | Bone fragment of Saint Edward the Confessor |
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| Status | Parish Church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architect(s) |
Robert Cary Long, Jr. T. Buckler Ghequier |
| Architectural type | Gothic |
| Completed | 1846 |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop(s) | Steven J. Lopes |
| Priest(s) | Fr. Albert Scharbach |
Mount Calvary Church is a Roman Catholic, Anglican Use, parish located in the Seton Hill neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. The church was founded in 1842 as a mission congregation within the Episcopal Church and is now a community within the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter of the Roman Catholic Church.
The building was designed by the architect Robert Cary Long, Jr. in 1844 and the cornerstone was laid on September 10 of that year; the church was consecrated by Bishop Whittingham on Thursday February 19, 1846. In 1885, Long's nephew T. Buckler Ghequier added the chancel. The twelve-foot-high main altar of white marble was designed by American artist John LaFarge. The altar area is set out with encaustic tile from Mintons, and the glass in the Gothic windows contains a depiction of the Good Shepherd produced by Tiffany & Co. A reliquary in the main church houses a bone fragment of Saint Edward the Confessor. The bell, which dates to the nineteenth century, was cast by the McShane Bell Foundry.
The church features an Andover-Flentrop organ of C.B. Fisk Inc., an innovative organ of 1961 that is included in the listing of historic organs of the Organ Historical Society. A former organist at Mount Calvary was the composer Caryl Florio (born William James Robjohn). Bishop William Rollinson Whittingham wrote that “there are larger, more costly, and more splendid churches in Baltimore, but there is none in my judgement so well adapted to make the worshipper feel he must ‘keep his foot’ for he is in the house of God.”
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