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The Facility St. Luke's Church was erected in 1860, the second Episcopal church on the current site. It is the oldest church edifice in St. Albans City. The church building originally ended at the sacristy door, with the vesting room and parish house added in the first decade of the twentieth century. At mid-century the final addition, the kitchen, was added, which was modernized with industrial equipment in the nineteen nineties. The exterior of the building is faced with a locally quarried stone, Dunham dolomite, often called calico stone.
West Window, St. Luke's, St Albans, Photo Courtesy Bryan Powers
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The nave, with a seating capacity of approximately four hundred, is enhanced with a number of memorial windows. The largest of these windows are in the west, which depicts the four evangelists, and the east, which depicts various events in the life of Our Lord. This window is a memorial to Charlotte Emily Fay, wife of the Reverend Charles Fay, rector when the building was built, and daughter of the Right Reverend John Henry Hopkins, first bishop of the Diocese of Vermont. Music is provided by a tracker organ, built late in the nineteenth century, which is maintained regularly by Andover Organ Company. The last major overhaul of the organ was within the last twenty years.
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