Church of the Advocate
18th & Diamond Streets

In 1897, the Church of the Advocate was built as a memorial to George W. South, a wealthy merchant and Philadelphia country treasurer. Designed by Charles M. Burns in the style if the great European cathedrals, the Church of the Advocate stands as a magnificent model of Ecclesiological design in America. Burns took the theoretical ideas of the English Ecclesiological Movement and applied them to French Gothic forms to create a monument of Gothic Revival architect complete with sumptuous stained glass, superb architectural sculpture, flying buttresses and an orientation of the church to true East.