St. Mark's Episcopal Church (Starke, Florida)

St. Mark's Episcopal Church Built in 1880 as: All Saints Episcopal Church, Fairbanks, Florida Moved in 1900 to Starke, Florida
General information
Architectural style	Carpenter Gothic.
Town or city	212 North Church St., Starke, Florida
Country	United States
Coordinates	29°56′40″N 82°06′23″W / 29.94432°N 82.10631°W / 29.94432; -82.10631
Construction started	1880
Completed	1880
Technical details
Structural system	One story wooden frame building with two story rear side entrance/bell tower
Design and construction
Architect	Robert S. Schuyler

St. Mark's Episcopal Church, is an historic Carpenter Gothic Episcopal church located today at 212 North Church Street in Starke, Bradford County, Florida. Designed by Fernandina architect Robert S. Schuyler, it was built as All Saints Episcopal Church in 1880 some 20 miles to the south in Fairbanks in Alachua County on land donated by Fernandina attorney, George Fairbanks, who founded Fairbanks. After disastrous freezes in the 1890s destroyed the Fairbanks citrus groves, membership in All Saints declined and the church was closed. In 1900 it was moved to its present location and renamed St. Marks. All that remains of All Saints in Fairbanks today is its overgrown cemetery.^{[1] [2][3]}

In 1989 St. Mark's was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.^[1]

Today St. Mark's is an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Florida. Its rector is the Rev. Dennis O'Neill.^[4]

References

External links

Media related to St. Mark's Episcopal Church at Wikimedia Commons

• St. Mark's Episcopal Church website
• Alachua County Genealogical Society's Virtual Cemetery Project: All Saints Cemetery
• All Saints Episcopal Church Cemetery at Find a Grave