St. Paul's Memorial Church and Rectory
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St. Paul's Memorial Church is an Anglo-Catholic Episcopal
parish in New York City
, New York
located at 225 St. Paul's Avenue in the Stapleton
area of Staten Island
.
The historic church was built in 1866 of rough-faced, irregularly cut blocks of Staten Island trap rock
with brownstone
trim. It has buttress
ed side walls, a steeply pitched roof, and angled buttresses at the corners. The front side features a central rose window
. An auxiliary chapel was added in 1889. The rectory
is also built of trap rock with brownstone trim.
It was added as "St. Paul's Memorial Church and Rectory" to the National Register of Historic Places
in 1980.
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parish in New York City
New York City
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, New York
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located at 225 St. Paul's Avenue in the Stapleton
Stapleton, Staten Island
Stapleton is a neighborhood in northeastern Staten Island in New York City in the United States. It is located along the waterfront of Upper New York Bay, bounded on the north by Tompkinsville at Grant Street, on the south by Clifton at Vanderbilt Avenue, and on the west by St. Paul's Avenue and...
area of Staten Island
Staten Island
Staten Island is a borough of New York City, New York, United States, located in the southwest part of the city. Staten Island is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull, and from the rest of New York by New York Bay...
.
The historic church was built in 1866 of rough-faced, irregularly cut blocks of Staten Island trap rock
Trap rock
Trap rock is a form of igneous rock that tends to form polygonal vertical fractures, most typically hexagonal, but also four to eight sided. The fracture pattern forms when magma of suitable chemical composition intrudes as a sill or extrudes as a thick lava flow, and slowly cools.Because of the...
with brownstone
Brownstone
Brownstone is a brown Triassic or Jurassic sandstone which was once a popular building material. The term is also used in the United States to refer to a terraced house clad in this material.-Types:-Apostle Island brownstone:...
trim. It has buttress
Buttress
A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall...
ed side walls, a steeply pitched roof, and angled buttresses at the corners. The front side features a central rose window
Rose window
A Rose window is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style and being divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery...
. An auxiliary chapel was added in 1889. The rectory
Rectory
A rectory is the residence, or former residence, of a rector, most often a Christian cleric, but in some cases an academic rector or other person with that title...
is also built of trap rock with brownstone trim.
It was added as "St. Paul's Memorial Church and Rectory" to the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1980.