A steel and fiberglas cupola is guided onto its base at the top of the tower of Zion UCC in York in 2002. The reproduction of a cupola removed from the church in 1974 houses antennas for PCS One. The original cupola (see photograph below), taken down after a structural analysis, had open windows and a bell, which is now inside the church.
Did you know the tower of a venerable York church hides all kinds of high-tech gadgetry?
It's a bit of a story so read on.
A recent post featured four towers from the 1800s captured by artist Lewis Miller.
One of those steeples, that on the German Reformed church, went down wihen the church was demolished in the early 1900s. Its successor, Zion United Church of Christ, went up facing Penn Park. (Trinity United Church of Christ is the other direct successor to the German Reformed church's, but that's another story, actually a Civil War tale.)
A cupola sat atop the church's tower until it a lightning strike prompted its removal in 1974.
Move ahead 30 years. ...
