St. John Chrysostom's Church (Bronx)
The Church of St. John Chrysostom | |
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General information | |
Architectural style | Romanesque Revival |
Town or city | Morrisania, The Bronx, New York City |
Country | United States |
Completed | 1900 (for church);[1] 1913 (for church interior)[2] 1913 (Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes)[2] |
Client | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York |
Technical details | |
Structural system | Masonry brick |
St. John Chrysostom's Church is a
Parish history
The parish was established in 1899 for a mostly
By the mid-twentieth century, the Irish,
Anthrax victim
Description
The double-height-over-sunken-basement brick twin-towered church with stone trim was built at 985 East 167th Street and Hoe Avenue in 1900. The church front elevation is symmetrically divided into three parts and consists of a nave with six-bay clerestory flanked to both sides by six-bay lean-to aisles, which terminate in the bookended square-in-plan single-bay four-stage towers, projecting a bay in depth to flank the gabled three-bay façade of the nave. The central gabled façade has three equal round-headed entrance openings addressed by a flight of stone steps spanning between the towers.
Pitched nave roof with pyramidal copper roofs with cross finials to towers. Walling has reddish-yellow-brick over rusticated stone splayed plinth/basement walling and a corbelled-stone-over-round-headed-arcade-band of brick. Openings all are round-headed with moulded stone architraves and reveals, some with stop-block-labeled hoodmoulds, except basement openings are openings, which are pointed-arched.
Gabled center of main façade has blind stone arcade to mid-height; entrance openings flanked with moulded responds and continuous imposts continued through entrance opening as transoms, with double-leaf timber paneled doors. Stained-glass tympanum overlights to entrances; gable apex features stained-glass rose window; copper cross finial above. Each exposed tower elevation has single window with hood to first stage; bipartite window with hood to second stage; blind oculus to third stage; and tripartite with hood and painted timber louvers to (belfry) fourth stage, which is above cornice level and has slightly setback corners.
The seven-bay four-story orange brick schoolhouse with stone trim was built 1914. Main façade is detailed with central three-bay breakfront that to ground floor is accentuated in four-centre-arched stone entrances. Ground-floor is double-height and defined from rest of structure with separating stone stringcourse and second floor sillcourse. A modillioned cornice conceals its roof. Windows are square-headed bipartite timber sashes with stone sills and lintels.
St. John Chrysostom's School
The parish also operates a Catholic grammar school at 1144 Hoe Ave, diagonally across Hoe avenue and 167th Street, and adjacent to the church's rectory. The Dominican Sisters of Sparkill have staffed the parish school since its opening in 1914.[1][3] In the 1940s, enrollment was over a thousand.[3] Presently, the school has around 600 students with approximately two sections per grade.[6]
References
- ^ Archdiocese of New York/ Strasbourg: Éditions du Signe, 2007), p.297.
- ^ a b c d e 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.387-388.
- ^ a b c d e "History". St. John Chrysostom School. Retrieved 31 March 2010.
- ^ Schwarz, Saul (November 5, 2001). "Anthrax Victim Buried". Getty Images. Retrieved November 27, 2022.
- ^ Fernandez, Manny (December 14, 2005). "For N.Y.P.D., 2nd Funeral in 8 Days". The New York Times.
- ^ "St. John Chrysostom". Bronx Catholic Blog. 29 July 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.