St. Peter's (1851), Episcopal

St. Peter's went up slowly. The vestry was elected on May 12, 1851, but the South Ninth Street lot was not bought until 1855, from Philip and Mary Yancey, when Frederick Barnard, the first resident priest, began the permanent church. It was finished in 1860, and Barnard preached the first sermon that Easter before leaving when the war came. Fighting and staffing troubles delayed consecration until 1871. The cathedral label followed Bishop Hugh Miller Thompson's move into the new rectory in 1883.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oxford Square — steps away
  The courthouse square laid out in 1837 on land bought from a Chickasaw woman, rebuilt after the 1864 burning and home to Square Books and a memorial to Lafayette County's lynching victims.
• Rowan Oak — 0.5 mi
  William Faulkner's Greek Revival house in Oxford, bought in 1930 and kept by the University of Mississippi, with the outline of A Fable still written on his study wall.
• The Lyceum and the Circle, University of Mississippi — 0.9 mi
  The 1848 Greek Revival building at the center of the Ole Miss campus, where federal marshals held off a mob on 30 September 1962 and James Meredith registered the next morning.
• Sardis Lake and Dam — 16 mi
  A flood-control lake on the Little Tallahatchie, built from 1930s labor and a dredge named Pontotoc, with a dam that for years was the largest earth-filled dam in the world.

More markers nearby

• Burns "Belfry" Church — steps away
• Freedmen Town — steps away
• Oxford Blues — steps away
• Theora Hamblett House — steps away