St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Circleville, Ohio) St. Philip's Episcopal Church (Circleville, Ohio) St. Philip's Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church located at 129 West Mound Street in Circleville, Ohio. The first Episcopal service in Circleville was held on May 26, 1817, by the Rev. Philander Chase, who in 1819 became the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio. The stone church building was built in 1866 in a mixed Gothic and Tudor Revival style and was consecrated in 1868. Besides its actual name, the church has been known as the "Little Church on the Mound," because it sits on the base of what was
Holyrood Episcopal Church Holyrood Episcopal Church Holyrood Episcopal Church is a Protestant Episcopal Church located in the Washington Heights neighborhood in upper Manhattan, New York City. The church was founded in 1893 by Rev. William Oliver Embury, who served as chaplain of the nearby House of Refuge for Problem Girls, and was operated by the Episcopal religious order, the Sisters of St. Mary, in what is now Inwood Hill Park at a time when upper Manhattan was an area of country houses located beyond the edge of the city. The congregation's first building, in country gothic style, was designed by R.D. Chandler and