Birmingham Churches and their Cornerstones 113

This church was organized as a congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in 1841. That makes it the oldest congregation highlighted in this series to date. The wooden building to the left below dates from 1880. That makes it the oldest building in this series as well. But it does not have a dated stone.

The newer brick building does have a dated stone. Oddly, however, it is not on the front of the building, but over a window on the north side of the building, facing the old church. It is the type of “name stone” that sometimes appeared over the door of the church, particularly in the nineteenth century.

In 2023 the congrgation, which from a series of denonominational mergers was now a part of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) disbanded. But when I visited the site and took the above photos almost a year later, on April 7, 2024, little had changed. The sign announcing the last service (some 11 months earlier) was still up.

For more information on the church’s history, please see the entry on it in Bhamwiki. Read this first post for more on this series on Birmingham churches and their cornerstones.

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The color and shape of the location markers indicate the character of the cornerstones at each site. Stones like these, with at most one name and a scriptural verse of dedicatory phrase are represented by dark blue markers. Click here for full information on the markers.