All Saints Church (New York City)

All Saints RC Church
General information
Architectural style Gothic Revival
Venetian Gothic[1]
Town or city New York, New York
Country United States of America
Completed 1893[1]
Design and construction
Client Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York
Architect James Renwick Jr.[1]

The Church of All Saints is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, located at 129th Street and Madison Avenue, Manhattan, New York. It was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in January 2007.[1]

Contents

Parish

The parish was established in 1879 and is staffed by the Franciscan Friars.[2] The parish was originally intended for the neighborhood's Irish immigrants.[1] As the neighborhood has changed, the parish today is predominantly African-American and Nigerian.[1]

Building

It was listed at its present address as early as 1892.[3] Known as the "St. Patrick's of Harlem" because of its ambitious design by the same architect as the city's St. Patrick's Cathedral, James Renwick Jr., also the architect of the city's Grace Church (Manhattan), Vassar College's Main Building, and the District of Columbia's Smithsonian Castle, Smithsonian Renwick Gallery.[1] The Gothic Revival, or alternatively Venetian Gothic, brick church with terracotta trimming was dedicated in 1893.[1] The design is festooned with rose windows in the clerestory and a prominent bell tower. "The vaulted interior is also rich in details, including comfortable hand-carved pews, murals and stained glass."[1]

School

The parish school was among 27 closed by Archbishop Dolan in the Archdiocese of New York on 11th of January 2011.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Church of All Saints (Roman Catholic) New York City Organ Website
  2. ^ Remigius Lafort, S.T.D., Censor, The Catholic Church in the United States of America: Undertaken to Celebrate the Golden Jubilee of His Holiness, Pope Pius X. Volume 3: The Province of Baltimore and the Province of New York, Section 1: Comprising the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, Buffalo and Ogdensburg Together with some Supplementary Articles on Religious Communities of Women.. (New York City: The Catholic Editing Company, 1914), p.309.
  3. ^ The World Almanac 1892 and Book of Facts (New York: Press Publishing, 1892), p.390.
  4. ^ Alice McQuillan, "New York Archdiocese to Close 27 Schools," NBC New York, 11 January 2011 (Accessed 7 February 2011)
  5. ^ Archdiocese of New York, "RECONFIGURATION COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING “AT-RISK” SCHOOLS ACCEPTED BY ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK," Official Press Release, 11 January 2011 (Accessed 7 February 2011)