{"id":771,"date":"2016-05-03T22:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T02:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/old_wp\/?p=771"},"modified":"2017-07-26T18:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T22:26:21","slug":"st-rochs-roman-catholic-church-and-rectory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/standard\/bronx-survey\/st-rochs-roman-catholic-church-and-rectory\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Roch&#8217;s Roman Catholic Church and Rectory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/St.-Rochs-Roman-Catholic-Church-and-Rectory02.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-773\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/St.-Rochs-Roman-Catholic-Church-and-Rectory02-295x300.jpg\" alt=\"St. Roch's Roman Catholic Church and Rectory\" width=\"295\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>Location:<\/strong> 525 Wales Avenue, Block: 2580, Lot: 28.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Status:<\/strong> Never landmarked or heard. In 2015, St. Roch stopped giving regular sacraments and merged its parish with nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/standard\/bronx-survey\/st-anselms-roman-catholic-church\/\">St. Anselm&#8217;s.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Description from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/bronx-survey\/the-1978-bronx-survey\/\">Bronx Survey<\/a>:<\/strong> St. Roch&#8217;s church and rectory complex is a Neo-Plateresque grouping designed in 1951 by the architectural firm of DePace 5 Juster. &#8216;The church building is a typical basilican structure built of brick laid in Flemish bond and topped by a Spanish-tile roof.<\/p>\n<p>The plateresque ornament, inspired by the architecture of the sixteenth-century Spanish Renaissance is placed at strategic spots on the facade and is particularly notable at the southeastern entrance to the building. At this corner a one-story entrance porch of cast stone projects from the main facade. This porch is ornamented with ornately detailed pilasters, columns, cartouche forms and strapwork decoration.<\/p>\n<p>Above the porch rises a round-arched window flanked by bulbous columns topped by finials. A niche with a statue of a saint is located above the window. To the rear of the church is a simple square tower topped by an ornate open-arched belfry with a decorative mosaic dome and tiny round-arched lantern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: 525 Wales Avenue, Block: 2580, Lot: 28. Status: Never landmarked or heard. In 2015, St. Roch stopped giving regular sacraments and merged its parish with nearby St. Anselm&#8217;s. Description from the Bronx Survey: St. Roch&#8217;s church and rectory complex is a Neo-Plateresque grouping designed in 1951 by the architectural firm of DePace 5 Juster. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[47,41,69,81,51],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bronx-survey","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-survey","tag-melrose","tag-st-rochs-roman-catholic-church-and-rectory","tag-surviving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1084,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771\/revisions\/1084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}