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New York
Architecture Images- Midtown Holy Innocents |
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architect |
Patrick C Keely |
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location |
128 W 37th Street |
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1870 |
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Gothic |
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Church |
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The parish was established in 1866 and the church
completed in 1870. The church is in a rather odd Gothic style, but one
with considerable charm. The architect was Patrick C Keely. The west
front (actual north) has three windows completely filled by tracery, the
central one above a row of four lancets. Three portals lead into a vestibule under the gallery but the church itself also has side galleries. Very tall and thin arcades with paired (metal?) columns rise over the galleries which are supported on thicker columns. The east two bays however have these paired columns the full height as they have no galleries. A small clerestory rises between the springers for the plaster groined ceiling. No window behind the main altar but instead Constantino Brumidi created a monumental fresco of the Crucifixion. Soon after Brumidi was commissioned to decorate the Great Rotunda of the U. S. Capitol Building with magnificent frescoes. |
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Special thanks to
www.churchcrawler.co.uk
(British and international church architecture site) for generous
permission to use images and info.
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