St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Memphis - Historic and Contemporary Images

Historic and Contemporary Images

  • Dr. Richard Hines, first rector, 1857-1871

  • Deacon Carol Gardner and Bishop Don Johnson in Easter procession 2007

  • Displayed in the north transept, this stone is part of one of the columns of the balustrade that surrounded the ancient Pool of Bethesda. Brought from Jerusalem by Bishop Thomas F. Gailor, June 1, 1928.

  • "Sisters of St. Mary Window"

  • Original cathedral building c. 1898

  • Sister's Chapel and St. Mary's School for Girls, c. 1900

  • Recession after service

  • cross-section view

  • Interior view of West Front door

  • "West" front interior

  • Altar with cross enshrouded for Lent

  • Dean William A. Dimmick 1960

  • "Saint on break" in Sisters' Chapel

  • Detail from the "Baptism Window"

  • Cathedral Guild Lunches 1906

  • Sisters' Chapel (1888) is the oldest structure in the Cathedral complex.

  • The cathedral itself is flanked on the left by the Diocesan House and on the right by the Sisters' Chapel.

  • Glastonbury Abbey stone

  • Cathedral construction bond

  • Mary and Jesus

  • Parish Hall, built on the site of the Cloister Garden

  • Cathedra (bishop's seat)

  • looking east across nave

  • "South" transept windows

  • In 1962 Dean Sanders was consecrated as "Bishop Coadjutor Sanders," Diocese of Tennessee

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