page_title: St. Sebastian's Catholic Church (Sebastian, Ohio)
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: St. Sebastian's Catholic Church (Sebastian, Ohio) / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Date stone at the base of the tower of St. Sebastian's Catholic Church, located at the intersection of County Road 716A and Sebastian Road at Sebastian, an unincorporated community in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States. Built in 1904, the church was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a part of the Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio Thematic Resources.
context_page_description: St. Sebastian's Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic church in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States. Located in the unincorporated community of Sebastian, it is the home of an active congregation and has been declared a historic site because of its well-preserved early twentieth-century Gothic Revival architecture.
context_section_description: Andrew DeCurtins, Anton's son, was chosen as the architect for the new structure; he employed stone for the foundation, pressed brick (laid in a stretcher bond) for the walls, and slates for the roof. The entire building is a very tall structure; its vertical features are highlighted by elements such as the sandstone trim on the buttresses. Although the building is only one story high, it includes a tall steeple with a belfry and topped with a four-sided spire. Worshippers enter the building through a doorway in the tower's base; the transom features tracery crowned with sandstone. Inside, the church is equipped with a basement, while its most impressive feature is a vaulted ceiling decorated with multiple High Gothic Revival reredos. A rectangle 113 feet (34 m) long and 52 feet (16 m) wide, the church was built on the site of the previous structure.
  Architectural historians have divided the Precious Blood-related churches of western Ohio into four generations. St. Sebastian's is typical of the churches of the third generation, which are generally Gothic Revival structures with a single central tower. It is one of six extant churches from this period that were designed by the DeCurtins family.
caption: Detail of the front of the tower
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