Saint Thomas Church (Manhattan)
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| Church of St Thomas | |
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| Location | 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue Manhattan, New York City |
| Denomination | Episcopal |
| Churchmanship | High Church |
| Website | www.saintthomaschurch.org |
| History | |
| Founded | 1823 |
| Consecrated | April 25, 1916 |
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| Completed | 1914 |
| Construction cost | $1,171,906.44 (equivalent to $28,020,633 in 2016) |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 214 ft |
| Width | 100 ft |
| Nave width | 43 ft |
| Height | 95 ft |
| Materials | Kentucky limestone, Kentucky sandstone |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | New York |
| Province | Province II |
| Clergy | |
| Rector | The Reverend Carl F. Turner |
| Priest(s) | Fr Joel C. Daniels |
| Honorary priest(s) | Fr Andrew C. Mead OBE DD, Fr Charles F. Wallace, Fr David F. McNeeley, Fr William A. Norgren, Fr Thomas F. Pike, Fr John C. Smith, Fr J. Robert Wright Can. Prof. |
| Curate(s) | Fr Michael D. Spurlock |
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| Organist/Director of music | Daniel Hyde |
| Organist(s) | Benjamin Sheen |
| Verger | Andrew Kimsey |
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St. Thomas Church and Parish House
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| Location | 1-3 W. 53rd St. Manhattan, New York City |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: 40°45′39″N 73°58′34″W / 40.76083°N 73.97611°W |
| Built | 1909 |
| Architect | Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson |
| Architectural style | Late Gothic Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 80002722 |
| Added to NRHP | April 9, 1980 |
Saint Thomas Church, located at the corner of 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York in the United States, is an Episcopal parish church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York. It is also known as Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue or as Saint Thomas Church in the City of New York and was incorporated on 9 January 1824. The current structure, completed in 1914, is the fourth church built to house this congregation and was designed by the architects Ralph Adams Cram and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in the French High Gothic Revival style.
The church is home to the Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys a choral ensemble comprising men and boys which performs music of the Anglican tradition at worship services and offers a full concert series during the course of the year. The boys of the Saint Thomas Choir (as the men are professional singers) are enrolled at the Saint Thomas Choir School, the only church-affiliated residential choir school in the United States.
On 12 October 1823, members of three Episcopal parishes in Lower Manhattan, including notably William Backhouse Astor (1792–1875), a wealthy Manhattan landowner, Charles King (1789–1867), later president of Columbia University, and jurist William Beach Lawrence, combined forces to organize a new episcopal church in New York. Saint Thomas Church was incorporated on 9 January 1824. With the cornerstone laid in July 1824 at the northwest corner of Broadway and Houston Street, the first church edifice opened in 1826 and was described as "the best specimen of Gothic in the city." The location was the northern extent of developed settlement in Manhattan during the early 19th Century. It was designed in a Gothic Revival style by architect Joseph R. Brady (1760–1832) and the Reverend John McVickar (1787–1868), professor of moral philosophy at Columbia College (now Columbia University). Though enlarged and remodeled in 1844 to accommodate a growing congregation, this structure was destroyed by fire on 2 March 1851. The church immediately rebuilt at this location, opening in 1852.
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