St. Mary's Church of the Assumption is a historic church on FM 1295 in Praha, Texas.
It was built in 1895 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[2] Gottfried Flury, a Swiss-born artist from Moulton, TX, painted much of the interior.[3] Using a combination of stenciling, infill painting, and freehand techniques, Flury's trompe-l'œil designs mimic stone vaults and Gothic tracery reminiscent of central European models.[4] The ornate polychrome interior of St. Mary's Church of the Assumption is typical of the so-called "Painted Churches of Texas" constructed by immigrants who settled in the region in the nineteenth century.
Plan
The church has a rectangular plan consisting of a five-bay nave with side aisles terminated by a polygonal apse.
^Harwood, Buie (1993). Decorating Texas : decorative painting in the Lone Star State from the 1850s to the 1950s. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press. p. 29. ISBN9780875651149. OCLC26930603.
Further reading
Baker, T. Lindsay. Ghost Towns of Texas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
Christensen, Carl J., and Pixie Christensen. Lone Star Steeples: Historic Places of Worship in Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2016.
Koenig, Jon Todd. Fayette County. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub, 2011.
