Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
- Architect
- Schickel & Ditmars
- Style
- Renaissance Revival
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Church of St. Ignatius Loyola stands at 980 Park Avenue on the Upper East Side, designed by Schickel & Ditmars in the Renaissance Revival style. Administered by the Society of Jesus under the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, the parish was established in 1851 as St. Lawrence O'Toole's Church and renamed in 1898 after Rome granted permission to change its patron saint to St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order.
the building
A full-block Jesuit complex. The church anchors a large Jesuit complex occupying most of the block bounded by Park Avenue, East 83rd Street, Madison Avenue, and East 84th Street, including Wallace Hall beneath the church, the rectory on Park Avenue, and the parish's grammar school directly behind.
Two schools on site. The complex also houses two Jesuit high schools, the coeducational Loyola School and the all-scholarship, merit-based Regis High School.
the style
Schickel & Ditmars designed the church in the Renaissance Revival style, giving the Park Avenue facade its formal, classically ordered presence.
More on Renaissance Revivalthe architect
The firm Schickel & Ditmars designed the church.
significance
The Church of St. Ignatius Loyola is a New York City Landmark, listed on both the National Register of Historic Places and the New York State Register of Historic Places.
nearby
- Benjamin N. Duke House
- 998 Fifth Avenue Apartment House
- House at 49 East 80th Street
- The Met Fifth Avenue
- East 80th Street Houses
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum