Foxburg, PA 1880; extant
James Peacock Sims had attended secondary school and college with William Logan Fox (1851-80), whose early death was memorialized along with that of his father in this church in northwestern Pennsylvania. The drawing was entrusted to Eyre, Sims's twenty-two-year-old draftsman. The design was directly modeled on one of the rare churches to strongly reflect the Queen Anne revival, Richard Norman Shaw's Church of St. Michael and All Angels in Bedford Park, outside London. A plate of its design was published in an English journal, Building News, on 17 January 1879, and even the format on Eyre's sheet closely echoed that plate of elevations and sections.
The church largely followed Eyre's plan in execution, but the elevation were treated in a different style and material. Eyre's drawing, however, was published in the American Architect and Building News on 5 March 1881. His technique, black ink on paper, was favored in many of his early drawings; it was the format most easily susceptible to reproduction in the architectural journals of the early 1880s.
Plan, elevations, perspective by Eyre for Sims, 1880 [Archtl. Archives, UP: 01.104.001]
Entry front [photo: J. Cohen]
Apse and uphill side [photo: J. Cohen]
Interior [photo: J. Cohen]