St. Patrick's Catholic Church Doorway - Washington, D.C.
N 38° 53.863 W 077° 01.562
18S E 324302 N 4307377
St. Patrick's Catholic Church, the oldest parish in the Federal City of Washington, D.C., USA, has a beautifully ornate doorway.
Waymark Code: WM35WC
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 02/15/2008
Views: 148
The following information about St. Patrick's Church is posted on the
Church's website
This present edifice was designed by the New York architect Laurence O'Connor and is considered the third church building, but the fourth major location of parish worship (excluding private chapels or homes used in the late 1790s). Though the cornerstone and foundation for this third and present structure were set and blessed on November 3, 1872, the church was not sufficiently completed until the first Mass was celebrated on November 2, 1884. The official dedication was held on December 28, 1884. In anticipation of our bicentennial anniversary in 1994, the church was renovated as it is now.
The exterior of this Victorian Gothic Revival style of architecture is constructed of random coursed blocks of blue-gray gneiss and is trimmed with buff colored sandstone together with polished rose and gray granite. The length of the building from the center entrance to the sanctuary apse is 169 feet; the width of the transept is 84 feet. The height of the nave vaults from the floor is 60 feet.