Stop P: St Peters Episcopal Church - Building Stone Walking Tour of Uptown Charlotte (sitios de interés)
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Stop P: St. Peters Episcopal Church
115 West Seventh Street, Charlotte, NC 28202
St. Peter’s (Figure 52) was the first Episcopal Church in Charlotte and the parish can trace its origins to 1834. The current building at the corner of Seventh and Tryon Streets was completed in 1895.
P1: Accent stone
While much of the Church’s construction is brick, sandstone blocks (Figure 53) were
used in the foundation, doorways, stairways and windows. These sandstones are medium-grained, planar stratified, brownish red sublitharenites (mostly quartz with rock fragments). The dark red/black color visible on many of the sandstone blocks is the result of weathered iron bearing minerals and of pollution. Restoration efforts have included
plastering portions of the faces of many of the stones with stucco.
Find a stone where the stucco has chipped away in order to observe the actual color and grain characteristics of this rock.
These sandstones are likely derived from fluvial deposits found in Triassic basins (~220 million years old) in eastern North Carolina, including the Deep River Basin which underlies the Durham/Chapel Hill area. Similar sandstones were used in 19th and 20th century brownstone construction in major cities up and down the East Coast.
P2: Roof tiles
A common roofing material for this period of architecture, these slate roofing tiles
(Figure 54) are possibly derived from the Ordovician Martinsburg Formation in
Pennsylvania. Can you spot the banding in some of the tiles? This is the product of the
deposition of sediment layers prior to the metamorphism that changed the stone from shale to slate.
115 West Seventh Street, Charlotte, NC 28202
St. Peter’s (Figure 52) was the first Episcopal Church in Charlotte and the parish can trace its origins to 1834. The current building at the corner of Seventh and Tryon Streets was completed in 1895.
P1: Accent stone
While much of the Church’s construction is brick, sandstone blocks (Figure 53) were
used in the foundation, doorways, stairways and windows. These sandstones are medium-grained, planar stratified, brownish red sublitharenites (mostly quartz with rock fragments). The dark red/black color visible on many of the sandstone blocks is the result of weathered iron bearing minerals and of pollution. Restoration efforts have included
plastering portions of the faces of many of the stones with stucco.
Find a stone where the stucco has chipped away in order to observe the actual color and grain characteristics of this rock.
These sandstones are likely derived from fluvial deposits found in Triassic basins (~220 million years old) in eastern North Carolina, including the Deep River Basin which underlies the Durham/Chapel Hill area. Similar sandstones were used in 19th and 20th century brownstone construction in major cities up and down the East Coast.
P2: Roof tiles
A common roofing material for this period of architecture, these slate roofing tiles
(Figure 54) are possibly derived from the Ordovician Martinsburg Formation in
Pennsylvania. Can you spot the banding in some of the tiles? This is the product of the
deposition of sediment layers prior to the metamorphism that changed the stone from shale to slate.