Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral
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| 39°05′53.4″N 94°35′21.58″W / 39.098167°N 94.5893278°WCoordinates: 39°05′53.4″N 94°35′21.58″W / 39.098167°N 94.5893278°W | |
| Location | 415 W. 13th St. Kansas City, Missouri |
| Country | United States |
| Denomination | Episcopal Church in the United States of America |
| Website | www |
| History | |
| Consecrated | 1898 |
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| Architect(s) | Frederick Elmer Hill, McKim, Meade & White |
| Style | Transitional Norman Gothic |
| Completed | 1895 |
| Construction cost | $100,000 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 600–800 persons |
| Length | 138 feet (42 m) |
| Width | 60 feet (18 m) |
| Height | 75 feet (23 m) |
| Materials | Limestone |
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| Diocese | West Missouri |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop(s) | Rt. Rev. Martin S. Field |
| Dean | Very Rev. Peter DeVeau |
Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral is an Episcopal cathedral in the Quality Hill neighborhood of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, United States. It is the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri.
The parish that today is Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral was established on the west side of Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, in the Quality Hill area, on July 20, 1870. That parish originally was named "Saint Paul's Church." It was renamed "Grace Church" on April 14, 1873, after a two-year campaign by the Senior Warden, John R. Balis (1834–1914), who had suggested that name at the organizational meeting in 1870. Grace Church built a wood frame structure on the southeast corner of Tenth and Central Streets in 1874. The present church structure, located at 415 West 13th Street, was the second worship space constructed for Grace Church, but the first to be built of stone. It was designed by Frederick Elmer Hill (1857–1929) of the prominent New York City firm, McKim, Mead & White. Construction on the present Nave began in June 1893. (The first stone structure erected at the West 13th Street site, known as Guild Hall, was constructed from May 1888 through March of 1890. It was designed by two brothers, Adriance Van Brunt (1836–1913) and John Van Brunt (1854–1924), who had founded an architectural firm known as A. Van Brunt and Company in Kansas City in 1883. In June 1890, the primary convention for the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri was held in Guild Hall. That building now houses the offices of the Cathedral on the second floor, and the library, common room, gift shop, choir room, and restrooms on the first floor.)
In the course of designing the new Nave for Grace Church, Hill worked with its Fifth Rector, Dr. Cameron Mann, D.D., L.L.D. (1851–1932). Mann had just returned from a three-month trip to England, where he studied the many great cathedrals of that country, when he asked the Vestry of Grace Church to engage Hill as the architect for the new stone structure. Hill's design for the Nave was greatly influenced by Mann's vision after his tour of English churches and cathedrals.
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