At the top of Stone Church in uptown Saint John, the decorative stone faces carved on the tower have seen a lot.
Those eyes watched uptown Saint John burn in the Great Fire of 1877. They saw the city’s dirt roads turn into paved streets. They were there as sailing ships were replaced by steamboats, then modern cargo ships and oil tankers.
The stone grostesques, or carved heads, on each of the four pinnacles at the top of Stone Church look down on the Somerset Street overpass and Mount Pleasant to the north. (Julia Wright/CBC)
They’ve outlasted generations of Saint Johners.
But whether the church building could
