Church of the Village (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / Hoboken / New York City, New York / Seventh Avenue, 42-46

Gothic church completed in 1931. Designed by Louis E. Jallade, it was originally the Metropolitan-Duane Methodist Church. It has a corner tower with the nave adjoining it and extending back along West 13th Street. The front end of the nave has a.gable expressing the roof, and features a high Gothic arch, divided into three windows, echoed in the triple portal below. The south side of the nave exposed to view, displays a row of stepped buttresses and a shallow clerestory. The tower rises sheer with the wide corner buttresses and culminates in an open belfry, consisting of Gothic arches with mullioned subdivisions carried down below the openings into the body of the tower.
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Coordinates:   40°44'17"N   74°0'1"W
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