Christ Church Cathedral (St. Louis, Missouri)
Christ Church Cathedral is the Episcopal cathedral of the Diocese of Missouri. It stands at 1210 Locust Street in downtown St. Louis. The dean is the Very Reverend Kathie Adams-Shepherd, the first woman to hold that role at the cathedral.
Built from 1859 to 1867, it was designed by Leopold Eidlitz. The church is a fine example of Gothic Revival architecture, with some Greek Revival influences, and is one of Eidlitz’s best-preserved works. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994.
The cathedral sits at the southeast corner of 13th and Locust streets. The main building is made of Illinois sandstone, with a roof of purple and green slate. It has a cruciform (cross-shaped) layout and a tower on the northwest corner. The base of the tower houses a baptistry with an Italian marble font. A smaller sandstone chapel was added in 1893–95, and from 1910–12 a taller tower and porch were added using Indiana limestone.
The chimes include three steel bells dedicated in 1912, cast by Bochumer Verein Foundry in 1904. The bourdon bell weighs 5,732 pounds and is the largest bell in Missouri.
The cathedral originally housed an organ from the Roosevelt Organ Company; in 1926, the Skinner Organ Company installed a new organ.
Charles D. McLure, a St. Louis native and Montana silver magnate, was later revealed to be the anonymous donor of $50,000 toward building the cathedral (about $6.5 million today).
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