Sacred Heart
St. Francis De Sales Church
Bennington, Vermont
Finished: Summer 2009

Description:
St. Francis de Sales was the first Catholic Church in southern Vermont. The corner-stone of the current church building was blessed and laid on July 4, 1889. Interior renovations to the church occurred in the early 1970s, and the congregation merged with Sacred Heart Parish in July 1995. The Joseph Gnazzo Company, Inc. was asked to provide immediate stabilization to the church, and then later in a larger scope project, rebuilding the lower sections of the buttresses, repointng & grouting the interior cavities in the stone work. The bell tower was also stabilized by rebuilding large stone areas, repointing and grouting.