Staten Island

St. Patrick’s Church, Richmondtown

Emilio Guerra
October 27, 2019
2 min read

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On the edge of historic Richmondtown, this Catholic church is one of the oldest of its kind on Staten Island. Built in 1862 in sobering Romanesque Revival, we don’t know officially the name of the architect.

Richmondtown, Staten Island, New York City, New York With its sharply defined, expressive outline and its good proportions, this appealing Church is a fine example of the early phase of the Romanesque Revival style of architecture. Built in 1862 and bordering on historic Richmondtown, its pleasing appearance is not derived from any elaborate design, but rather from its structural projections and from the interesting play of light and shadows which these forms make on the surface of the plain, brick walls. The centrally located tower projects out from the plane of the facade-, and each flanking wall contains a well proportioned round-arched, stained glass window. In the base of the tower, the slightly recessed front entrance is enframed by a graceful arch. The arched transom of the door has the same narrow vertical boarding which was used in the construction of the handsome doors. White painted brick walls provide a superb backdrop for this dark brown doorway and the large, handsome Nineteenth Century wrought-iron lamps which flank the entrance. Above the doorway are a pair of slender, round-arched stained glass windows, surmounted by a blind oculus all contained within a sunken panel in the brickwork. The corners of the front elevation are reinforced by square buttresses, indented in the upper area with blind niches. At the roof line, the steeply pitched gable is strengthened by stepped arched corbel in itself a decorative feature. This same motif is repeated again as horizontal band defining the base of the belfry, A pair of round-arched louvered openings in each side of the square belfry conceals the bells. The slender polygonal-shaped spire capped by a cross crowns the tower. The first masses to be offered in the parish of Saint Patrick’s were conducted in a small frame structure located on Center Street in the Richmondtown community. On January 7, 1862, Father Barry of Saint Joseph’s Church, Rossville, Staten Island, purchased the present site of the

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