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St. Mary Magdalen Church

Abbeville, US

St. Mary Magdalen Church

St. Mary Magdalen Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at in Abbeville, Louisiana. In 1988 the church, along with the associated rectory and cemetery, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The cemetery was founded c. 1844, the present church was built in 1911; the American Fo

ursquare-style rectory was built in 1921. The property added to the National Register in 1988. The church is a red brick Gothic-style cruciform basilica with buff-colored brick accents. It has Romanesque Revival details. It has somewhat projecting buttresses reinforcing its outer walls.

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