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The alabaster panel, measuring 2 feet 10 inches in height and 6 feet 7 inches in width, was commissioned at a cost of $1,000.

St. Elizabeth's Memorial Chapel is an Anglican chapel located in the Eagle Valley section of Tuxedo, New York. The parish is a part of the Diocese of the Northeast of the Anglican Church in America (ACA), itself a member of the Traditional Anglican Communion. St. Elizabeth's is the home parish of ACA Bishop George D. Langberg.

History
The chapel was constructed in 1921 in Eagle Valley, a section of Tuxedo once owned almost in its entirety by the Hamilton family. The house around which was located a 2,000 acre estate known as "Table Rock" is presently owned by the Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate in the Immaculate Conception Province in the U.S. St. Elizabeth's was dedicated to the memory of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, daughter of William Pierson Hamilton—great-grandson of founding father Alexander Hamilton —and Juliet Pierpont Morgan Hamilton—daughter of financier J.P. Morgan. The firm of Trowbridge & Livingston was hired as architects, with Henry Wynd Young providing the stained glass.

During the tenure of nearby St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo rector Leon Cartmell, a group of St. Mary's parishioners began attending St. Elizabeth's after growing dissatisfied with Father Cartmell's high church services. Hamilton and Morgan family weddings are known to have taken place at St. Elizabeth's.

Present day
The current rector at St. Mary's is the Rev. Richard James Robÿn, who previously served as the 31st rector of Trinity Church Oxford in Philadelphia. St. Mary's 10th rector, the Rev. Dr. Edwin H. Cromey, currently serves as Rector Emeritus.

Services of Holy Communion are held twice every Sunday at St. Mary's: a spoken Eucharist at 8am using Rite I of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer at the St. Mark's altar and one at 10am in the church using music and hymns (Rite II). Additional services include a 10am Eucharist held on Wednesdays, and a 5pm Evening service held at the St. Mark's altar from February through April. The St. Mary's website estimates the church's capacity at 300, although past services have hosted as many as 500 guests.

St. Mary's rectors also conduct services and serve as priests-in-charge of St. John's in Arden, a country chapel whose cemetery serves as the final resting place of railroad magnate E. H. Harriman. Erected in 1863 on the former Arden estate, St. John's hosts three public services annually—on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve and Easter Sunday. These services use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and the 1940 Hymnal.


 * ... that four-time US Open tennis champion Robert Wrenn accidentally struck and killed St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo organist Herbert Loveday with his out-of-control vehicle in 1914?


 * ... that the Chapel of the Holy Spirit at St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo in Tuxedo, New York, features windows with stained glass dating back to the 16th century?

Burials
Notable burials at St. Elizabeth's Memorial Chapel Cemetery include:


 * Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, in whose name the chapel was given and sister of Pierpont Morgan Hamilton
 * Juliet Pierpont Morgan, daughter of J.P. Morgan


 * Ernest Henry Schelling, pianist and conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
 * Helen Naomi Forbes Salomon, mother of Clarence MacKenzie Lewis, builder of the Skylands estate

History: St. Francis Chapel, other ministries, organ donated in memory of j murray mitchell in 1905, brotherhood of st andrews, sunday school picnics and other events held at houses in the park (incl. W. Waldorf Astor and R. Mortimer)(see crofut pg. 9)

Services: decorating the beams and use of flowers for weddings

Musical tradition: organ, concerts, 1914 organist death

Details on internal structure: St. Mark's Altar, additions to the nave in 1897 and later, initially segregated entrances (stopped soon, see crofut pg 11),

St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo, commonly referred to as St. Mary's, is an active Episcopal church in Tuxedo, New York, located within the historic village of Tuxedo Park. Constructed in 1888 according to designs by architect William Appleton Potter, the Shingle style community church was the result of efforts to establish a permanent place of worship for Tuxedo's Episcopalian residents. Today the church serves as

Church decorations: Several sources attest to the extensive decorations that accompanied the various high society weddings at St. Mary's. The church's nave and sanctuary were often decorated with a wide variety of foliage: palms, lilies, peonies, holly, roses, dogwood, ferns, fruit blossoms and syringa. Arches were covered with woodland foliage and laurel, and the rafters were filled with branches of balsam. On one occasion a wedding bell formed from white roses was hung from a central arch.