Church of St. Vincent Ferrer (Manhattan)

Church of St. Vincent Ferrer
West elevation, 2009
Basic information
Location	869 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, NY, 10021
Geographic coordinates	40°45′58″N 73°57′53″W / 40.766239°N 73.964738°W / 40.766239; -73.964738
Affiliation	Roman Catholic
Country	United States of America
Year consecrated	1918
Leadership	Fr. Walter C. Wagner, O.P.
Website	Welcome to the Church of Saint Vincent Ferrer
Architectural description
Architect(s)	Bertram Goodhue
Architectural type	Church
Architectural style	Late Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1914
Completed	1916
Construction cost	$1.5 million
Specifications
Direction of façade	West
Materials	limestone
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Added to NRHP	June 14, 1984
NRHP Reference no.	84002800

The Church of St. Vincent Ferrer is a Roman Catholic parish on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1918 by the Dominicans; the attached priory serves as the headquarters of the Eastern United States Province of the order. Its architecture has some unusual features: above the front entrance is one of the few statues of the Crucifixion on the exterior of an American Catholic church; and inside, the Stations of the Cross depict Christ with oil paintings instead of statuary or carvings. It has two Schantz pipe organs. The church building, at the corner of Lexington Avenue and East 66th Street in the Lenox Hill section of the Upper East Side, has been called "one of New York's greatest architectural adornments."

The church is under the patronage of Saint Vincent Ferrer, a Dominican preacher from Valencia, capital from the ancient Kingdom of Valencia in Spain. It was designated a New York City landmark in 1967. Seventeen years later, in 1984, the church and priory, designed in 1881 by William Schickel, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.Andy Warhol regularly attended Mass at the church.