St Thomas Church

by HELGE Art Gallery

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St Thomas Church

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HELGE Art Gallery

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Photograph - Photography

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Saint Thomas Church, located at the corner of 53rd Street and Fifth Avenue in the borough of Manhattan in 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.

St Thomas Church, and specifically the Choir are centrally featured as subjects in a song by Guess Who front man Burton Cummings. "I'm Scared" relates an experience Cummings had as he came upon the Church during a visit with the band to New York. The song was a top ten solo hit for Cummings in Canada in 1976.
The church was featured in a scene in the 1990 Whit Stillman film Metropolitan.

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February 19th, 2018

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