St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School welcomes the community to campus at 2 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 2, to celebrate the centennial of the St. Andrew’s Chapel. The student-organized Chapel Centennial Festival includes barbecue, art and music. The event is one of several planned this year to mark the 100th anniversary of the spiritual center of the SAS campus.
Live music will be provided by Jay Faires, ’14, Linda Heck, Bude Van Dyke and Fritsl Butler. The celebration will continue until nightfall. There is a suggested $2 donation for adults. Children, students and SAS faculty and staff are free.
In 1905, the original chapel was an old woodworking shed used for church services. The effort to build a new chapel at St. Andrew’s School began in 1912, when St. Mark’s Church in Philadelphia, Penn., needed a temporary priest. Father Carter
Hughson of St. Andrew’s was sent until a permanent replacement was found for St. Mark’s.
In appreciation, the congregation of St. Mark’s Church gave its Easter offering to St. Andrew’s School in order to help build a new chapel. Father Hughson arranged for a Philadelphia architect to draw up the plans. The new chapel’s design was to be a significant masonry structure loosely based on the mission-style of the Presidio Church in Monterey, Calif. In 1913, Bishop William Guerry of South Carolina laid the cornerstone. The first mass was sung in the almost completed chapel on Quinquagesima Sunday on Feb. 22, 1914. Bishop Thomas Gailor consecrated the completed structure in May the following year.
St. Andrew’s-Sewanee School is a college preparatory boarding and day school in Sewanee. The school provides an outstanding college preparatory education in an atmosphere of mutual respect and support. The school’s 256 students include 179 day students from across Middle Tennessee and 77 boarding students hailing from 12 states and 16 countries.
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