2023-12-08 - Updated through online information from Steven Bartley: Located in the up-scale Ten Hills Community of Baltimore City, an Episcopal Chapel was built on a large lot ca. 1912. Soon after, it was named St. Mark's Chapel, Then a few years later renamed Holy Trinity Chapel, then Holy Trinity Church, then again St. Batholomew, in the late 1920s, when the St. Bartholomew's congregation merged with Trinity. St. Bart's was originally located on W North Ave. & Madison St. The first building, still used a parish house, is a handsome 2-storey brick building in the Tudor style, which resembles a 16th century house. The original plan was to use the first floor for Sunday School and 2nd floor used for church services, until a permanant church building could be built elsewhere on the property. The Lewis & Hitchcock organ was a clone of what E. M. Skinner was building. Both Wm. I. Hitchcock & Ted Lewis were employees with Skinner during the first period of his organ building. It contained two manuals. The Great consisted of one Open Diapason, and other stops duplexed from the Swell: 8' Open Diap., 8' Gedackt, 8' Salicional, 8' Aeoline, 4' Flute, 8' Flugel Horn and 16' Bourdon. The console was an elegant Skinner style drawknob clone. In 1930, a new free standing Gothic church building was built with a new 3-manual Moller organ, including pipes from the St. Bartholomew Moller of 1913. An additional curious note: In the 1950's a second merger took place with St. Bartholomew's Church, and another West Baltimore Church, also named Holy Trinity, which was located at 2300 W. Lafayette Ave. Though the white members of Holy Trinity made the move, the African American members did not move and continue to be active. -Jim Stettner
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