St. Martin's Catholic Church

marked by a single Gothic entrance, a tall pointed window and a three aisles by columns, although the exterior profile does not colonnettes, the ribs being applied to a center wooden post. They wooden reredos. The windows contain excellent mid-Victorian stained glass, most of them being memorials. At the east end there is a replacing the former three steps. New heating and electrical system s were installed, as well as a new tile floor, The ceiling was replastered vestry. CONDITION Moved Ruins collapse. In 196l the chancel was remodeled, with a one-step approach belfry with corner pilasters and Gothic louvered openings, and a tall a large pipe organ installed in 188l. The balcony is reached by square tower with corner buttresses on the axis of the east front. ed.

The steeple consists of a concave octagonal stage, an octagonal the apse and vestry, and a wooden frame entry to the rear of the support a continuous architrave running parallel to the aisles.Above The main body of the church is rectangular, with five bays on the actually constitute a basilican elevation.The columns are clustered the aisles the ceiling is formed by three pointed tunnel vaults. The slender spire with a large cross.The main tower has three stories and the whole interior repainted.

Low ground-story utility wings have been added on either side of inally there were pinnacles on the corners, but they have been remov- The main east entrance leads to a passage through the tower side elevations articulated by wall buttresses.There is a large This is a large brick church in the Victorian Gothic style. smaller shuttered lancet. At the west end a small gabled bay contains the apse.Behind this there is a still smaller bay for the vestry.

imposing structure for its location, a completely rural one. In By the 1830s a large number of German families, largely from Alsace and Baden, had settled in Liverpool Township, Medina 1840s to serve the German farm community. Another mission, St. Mary's of Abbeyville, was established two miles away at about the same time, but it was absorbed by St. Martin's in 1859. This chapel erected in 1842. A larger brick structure was built on the under the direction of Father John Van den Broek at a cost of $30,000, which represents a far more substantial cost than the Although there is no documentation, there is a basis for Catholic architect of the mid-nineteenth century, Patrick C.

Keely: the stylistic description of the typical Keely church, as set forth architect who came to America in 184l, settled in Brooklyn and 1861-1862 Commerce SIGNIFICANCE Engineering Conservation losophy Military Architecture Communications churches. Religion/Phi Transportation Science Aboriginal Theater Literature Agriculture Education Pre-Columbian Invention Music Political Sculpture itarian Social/Human- large church erected by a non-English immigrant community. conjecture that the architectural plan was provided by a pre-eminent Almost more suitable for a city, it is an unusually expensive and church is the third building of St.Martin's.The first was a log Cleveland, and the nucleus of St.Martin's was formed in the early addition it is an excellent example of the Victorian Gothic style.

average rural church of that date. This is a relatively early example in northern Ohio ofa Keely for a church in Toledo in 1862;3) the church exactly fulfills present site in 1849. The present building was built in186l-1862 is credited with the design of sixteen cathedrals and over 400 practice of the Church;2)Itis known that the Diocese employed 1)It is known that the Cleveland Diocese employed important in the New Catholic Encyclopedia.