{"id":800,"date":"2016-05-04T11:28:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T15:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/old_wp\/?p=800"},"modified":"2017-07-26T17:59:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T21:59:38","slug":"st-raymonds-roman-catholic-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/standard\/bronx-survey\/st-raymonds-roman-catholic-church\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Raymond&#8217;s Roman Catholic Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/StRaymond02.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-790\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/StRaymond02-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"St. Raymond's Roman Catholic Church\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>Location:<\/strong> 2370 East Tremont Avenue. Block: 3958, Lot: 80.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Status:<\/strong> Never landmarked or heard.<\/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. Raymond&#8217;s Church, located at the southeast corner of Castle Hill and East Tremont Avenues, was built in 1897 and is a fine example of the Byzantine Revival.<\/p>\n<p>The church is basilican in plan with the transept reflected in the exterior form by low roofs over the aisles and a high stained glass clerestory. The facade is dominated by twin round towers, each composed of a base and an upper open arcade carried by alternating twisted and plain columns with Byzantine capitals. Each tower is flanked by four similar towerlettes.<\/p>\n<p>The center bay of the facade frames a large rose window under a round arch supported by Corinthian columns, while three elaborately carved round-arched doorways separated by sets of columns and pilasters lead into the church from the grand stairway. Set back from behind a small cemetery, St. Raymond&#8217;s stands high on a square in a complex of Catholic schools and church buildings.<\/p>\n<p>A rectory mirroring the elaborate Byzantine carving of the church was built in 1935. The complex is visible for some distance and serves as a local landmark for the Parkchester community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: 2370 East Tremont Avenue. Block: 3958, Lot: 80. Status: Never landmarked or heard. Description from the Bronx Survey: St. Raymond&#8217;s Church, located at the southeast corner of Castle Hill and East Tremont Avenues, was built in 1897 and is a fine example of the Byzantine Revival. The church is basilican in plan with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[47,41,66,51],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bronx-survey","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-survey","tag-parkchester","tag-surviving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilio.nyc\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}