Christ The King Chapel (Buffalo, New York)

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In 1949, the college retained the prominent Buffalo architect Duane Lyman to design a chapel in the Romanesque style. Ground was broken in March 1950 at the north end of the campus. Work proceeded rapidly on the Chapel and the cornerstone of the building was laid in October 1950 on the feast of Christ the King. The chapel was completed in the Summer of 1951 and was dedicated on the feast of Ignatius Loyola on July 31, 1951. The Chapel, which seats 492, is constructed of granite with lighter trim of Indiana limestone. The archetypal pattern and the overmastering symbol of the chapel is a cross formed by the intersection of the nave and the transept. The stone cross above the entrance is the ancient Celtic cross, the Cross of Iona, dating back to the earliest days of Christianity in Ireland and Britain.