After the fire, only the granite bell tower and buttresses remained of the original 1920s neo-Norman church. To meet the town’s “residential scale” requirement, the new Hitchcock Presbyterian Church is sunk fourteen feet, with clerestory windows at street level. This below-grade expansion—filled with direct light from many windows—nearly doubled the church’s interior volume while replicating its original height. To link the church with its past and context, a literal fragment was created at the gable end of the transept, forming part of the street facade. Constructed from stone rubble salvaged from the fire, this fragment serves as a mnemonic device, evoking a distilled image of Norman architecture while the rest of the building announces itself as assertively new.