COCKEYSVILLE HISTORIC CHURCH

An architectural rendering shows what the renovation of St. Joseph Church in Cockeysville will look like. (Courtesy St. Joseph, Cockeysville)

Rock-solid plans: Cockeysville church set to begin $6.5 million restoration

By George P. Matysek Jr., Catholic Review

John Srygley, architect for a church renovation at St. Joseph in Cockeysville, joins Monsignor Richard Hilgartner (center), pastor, and John Speights (right), project manager from CAM Construction, in examining stone samples. (Courtesy Monsignor Hilgartner)

COCKEYSVILLE – More than 160 years after Irish and Italian immigrants extracted marble from a local quarry and used it to construct St. Joseph Church in the Texas enclave of Baltimore County, parish leaders are following in their founding parishioners’ footsteps.

At nearby Martin Marietta Quarry, church leaders have successfully located the same kind of stone as was employed in the original church. They plan to use it as the focal point of an ambitious $6.5 million church renovation project expected to kick off after Easter.

The famous Cockeysville marble, which has also been used in the construction of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C FINISH READING HERE

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