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Cobblestone Church

The original part of St James' Anglican Church, Paris, Ontario was constructed in 1839 using cobblestones.

In the late 1830s, £300 was received from the Duchess of Leeds and £200 from St. James' Church of Edinburgh, Scotland for an Anglican church in Paris. The terms of the gift stipulated that the church be named St James and be built of stone.

There were no nearby quarries. The town's Anglicans gave Levi Boughton, a mason from Albany, New York who had settled in Paris, his first cobblestone commission. Boughton was given two years to construct the building and with the aid of the parishioners collected cobblestones from the west bank of the Grand River.