The small details, such the Flamboyant Gothic bell tower, to the lettering on a cornerstone, Christ Church Cathedral is a fascinating structure. Below, when the bell tower was built in the Early Twentieth Century, a window was blocked up, below. And in the most exciting discovery, I realized that the church architect had originally intended…
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The Reredos, Christ Church Cathedral
I’m consistently impressed with the quality of sculpture in St. Louis churches. Sadly, when churches are abandoned, these beautiful stone works of art are usually the first to be targeted by vandals. In isolated cases, people of integrity are able to get ahold of these sculptures and preserve them, either in their original form or…
Behind the Scenes at Christ Church Cathedral
The Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Mike Kinman, generously invited me for a tour of the cathedral, pointing out many of the interesting aspects of the church. First of all, while it’s a Gothic Revival church, the nave’s ceiling does not have a groin vault, but rather an intricate wood frame design. The apse, however,…
Christ Church Cathedral
One of the oldest surviving churches in St. Louis, the Episcopalian Christ Church Cathedral occupies a quiet corner of downtown across the street from the newly restored Central Library. It was constructed between 1859 and 1867 and designed by Leopold Eidlitz in the Gothic Revival style. Perhaps what is most notable about its exterior is…
Christ Church Cathedral, Morning
I feel like Christ Church Cathedral sometimes is overlooked compared to the other cathedrals in town, but it is really a great English Gothic church. On a recent morning, I was able to photograph it in the morning light, which is rare because I am seldom downtown this early in the day. Not surprisingly for…
Christ Temple Cathedral Church, Former Salem Methodist Episcopal Church
I’d driven by Christ Temple Cathedral Church dozens of times at the corner of Page Boulevard and Pendleton Avenue, and last weekend the light was satisfactory, so I stopped and took some photographs. It’s a beautiful building, and was once home to Salem Methodist Episcopal Church, which moved out to Frontenac at the northeast corner…
Interior, Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church
We finally were given the opportunity to see the inside of Most Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church, one of the oldest and most historic parishes in St. Louis. Its appearance has changed over the years, first due to the tornado that altered its exterior form from the original design above, and then later in the…
Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Interior
The interior of the cathedral is a simple, basilica style church with no transepts or side aisles, and a rectangular apse at the end, flanked by two colonnades in the Ionic order. The high altar is dominated by a huge mosaic of the Madonna of the Immaculate Conception, with the Latin Inscription, “There is no…
St. Joseph Cathedral, Columbus, Ohio
St. Joseph’s Cathedral east of downtown Columbus is an interesting church, with construction beginning in 1866. But it changed plans over the years, with the original brick composition changed to stone. Columbus is a diocese, since the nearby city of Cincinnati is the Archdiocese of the Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati. I really like the exterior,…
Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains, Cincinnati
We head across the Ohio River into Cincinnati and come to the Cathedral Basilica of St. Peter in Chains, which is perhaps one of the more uniquely named seats of an archbishop in the United States. It is a very old building, whose cornerstone was laid in 1841, but has received an extensive renovation in…