St. Mark's Episcopal Church (San Antonio, Texas)

St Mark's Church
St Mark's Church
The Parish Church of Saint Mark the Evangelist
	29°25′42″N 98°29′23″W / 29.4284°N 98.4896°W
Location	315 East Pecan Street, San Antonio, Texas
Country	U.S.
Denomination	Episcopal Church
History
Status	Active
Architecture
Functional status	Parish Church
Architect(s)	Richard Upjohn
Completed	1877
Administration
Province	Province VII
Diocese	Episcopal Diocese of West Texas
Clergy
Rector	The Rev. Elizabeth Knowlton
Assistant priest(s)	The Rev. Matthew W. Wise and The Rev. Ann Benton Fraser
Laity
Organist(s)	Jon Johnson
Churchwarden(s)	George Spencer, Jr.
	St. Mark's Episcopal Church
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
NRHP reference No.	98000103
RTHL No.	4463
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	February 12, 1998
Designated RTHL	1962

St. Mark's Episcopal Church is a historic church in San Antonio, Texas, United States. It is an Episcopal church in the Diocese of West Texas.

History[edit]

St. Mark's was founded as a parish in 1858.^[2] The church is located at 315 East Pecan Street in Travis Park, in the heart of the River Walk District and is only four blocks from the Alamo. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 12, 1998.

Lady Bird Johnson and Lyndon B. Johnson were married at St. Mark's by Rev. Arthur R. McKinstry on November 17, 1934.^[3]

The rector is the Reverend Beth Knowlton (called to be rector on May 20, 2014).^[4]

St. Mark's belfry houses a bell that was cast in New York in 1874 from the remains of the "Come and Take It" cannon that ignited the Texas Revolution in 1835 at Gonzales, TX. The cannon; a six-pound, Spanish made, bronze, artillery piece was unearthed in 1852, inside the Alamo, after being spiked and buried by Mexican troops after the defeat of the Alamo by General Santa Anna and the Mexican army.