Home » Architecture » New Church Architecture: St. Mary of Sorrows in Fairfax, Virginia The Church of St. Mary of Sorrows is a new church project that was undertaken by McCrery Architects in Fairfax, Virginia. This particular project follows, as McCrery generally does, a traditional, neo-classical idiom. McCrery sets the backdrop and goals of the project for us: Built ... in historic Fairfax, the new building is cruciform in plan, with transepts, sanctuary, and nave forming a Latin Cross. The pedimented gable-ends and careful proportioning form a distinctly American version of Palladian Architecture, loved by early American builders for their religious meeting houses but reinterpreted here for a growing twenty-first century community. The exteriors are designed to be subtly feminine, characterized by their use of a rose-colored brick and restrained use of limestone accents. Special emphasis is given to the east-facing entry façade with Ionic Columns forming a prominent eustyle portico …