St. Agnes Catholic Church, Mena, Arkansas 2

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[This set has 7 images] Built 1921-1922 in Spanish Mission style, St. Agnes Catholic Church in Mena, Arkansas, uses fieldstone as its primary building material, the entire structure on a continuous cast concrete foundation. The locally obtained stone enhances the architectural style well. All the roofs are clad with green ceramic tile, from the gable roof on the front (eastern) facade to the hipped roof surfaces over the asymmetrical towers flanking the front entrance. My bad knee prevented taking photographs of the 3-sided apse on the western facade and other facades. The church is a single story. In the central gable above the entrance is a monumental symmetrically placed Gothic window of leaded glass and a trim of bricks as its surround. Stone simulates quoins on either side of this window. Below is a large entrance that mimics the shape of the window above. There is a double-leaf door with large single-pane sidelights. Just above the door is a rectangular stained glass pane and above this a single pane of an exaggerated triangle. Brick surrounds the door frame on 3 sides. The shorter tower at the entrance has a low hipped roof and two lancet windows, a short one at the lowest part and a taller one above (again with the brick at the outer edges). There are corner buttresses to this tower. The taller tower has the two lancet windows plus an open belfry in addition to the corner buttresses. On each tower is a cross. The National Register of Historic Places nomination form (link below) provides more information on the other facades and details of the interior, which I was unable to photograph. The dimensions of the church and 85x50 feet, the walls being 1 1/2 feet thick. The final cost in the early 1920s was about $25,000. St. Agnes was added to the National Register of Historic Places June 5, 1991 with ID#91000696.

The nomination form in .pdf format is found at www.arkansaspreservation.com/National-Register-Listings/P...

The church website is at www.stagneschurchmena.org/

The photos in this series:
1) front facade
2) front facade and a partial view of the north facade
3) a portion of the tall tower at the entrance
4) the shorter tower at the entrance
5) the entrance
6) the monumental window above the entrance
7) a close-up of the building material used throughout

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Taken in: United States / Arkansas / Center Township / Mena (show map)

Taken on: May 18, 2018

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St. Agnes Catholic Church

Mena

Polk County

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