1891 - Parish Church of St. Martin of Tours - Starkenburg, MO - Dated Buildings and Cornerstones on Waymarking.com

"The Shrine of Our Lady of Sorrows at Starkenburg is located amid the rolling, wooded countryside of Montgomery County near Rhineland, Missouri. The Shrine includes four buildings and seventeen structures scattered over forty-five acres: the Church of the Risen Savior with its neighboring cemetery; a modern Parish Hall; the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows: a small Log Chapel; an underground replica of the Holy Sepulcher; fourteen Stations of the Cross set in a wood; the Lourdes Grotto, which recalls its French namesake; and a hillside construction, recalling the Agony in the Garden, called Mt. Olive (see site plan). The construction dates of the buildings and shrines range from 1873 (Church of the Risen Savior) to 1950 (Holy Sepulcher). Also included with boundaries of the Shrine are two small garage-sheds west of the church. The grounds, buildings and structures are all in excellent condition. Most of the area is open to the passing traveler and special pilgrimage observances are held twice a year.

"The Church of the Risen Savior (1873 - photos #1-6) is constructed of coursed and squared, buff limestone blocks on a coursed and squared rubble limestone foundation,with a dark slate roof. The building faces east and measures 88'9" from east to west and 46' from north to south. It is designed in a simple rendition of the Gothic Revival style with a gable corbel table, small buttresses, double and single lancet openings and quatrefoil tracery on its primary facade. The building was originally constructed with a shorter nave and without a bell tower and vestibule (photo #16). In 1891 the nave was lengthened and the bell tower and vestibule added in coursed and squared rubble limestone construction like the foundations of the building. The interior of the church is faced with plaster tinted shades of cream and turquoise blue and is surmounted by a barrel vault. The aisle windows, which are tinted in the solid colors of rose, blue, yellow and green in pairs, one to the north and one to the south, create a striking rainbow effect within the church with the passage of light. Featured within the church are several ornately carved wooden Gothic Revival alters." ~ NRHP Nomination Form

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