[Magdalen] Saint Andrew's Collegiate Chapel, PDS.

[Cantor03 at aol.com]

There's nothing spookier than an abandoned church, and, sadly, that is  the
case for the chapel of the former Philadelphia Divinity School that  merged
with the Cambridge, MA Divinity School in 1974.  The ownership is  now
the University of Pennsylvania, the Ivy League school, and there has  been
really no use of this building for a couple of decades.  Necessary to  
upgrade
the building:  $1 million.
 
The Chapel was designed and built at the height of the Collegiate  Gothic
Revival.  The building is unusually tall and narrow, and features  stalls
that rival some of the medieval ones such as Chester Cathedral and  those
at Amiens Cathedral, France.
 
Liturgical music as well as a lot of classical music must have been 
wonderful in this stone space with timbered vault.
 
I recall a clergyman on this list (if memory serves) who was a  graduate
of PDS, and who was wondering what was done with the chapel back
in the day.
 
The answer is, nothing.
 
 
 
http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/maps/locations/divinity-site-main-chapel
 
 
 
http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v56/n27/images_n27/slideshow/index.htm
 
 
 
 
David Strang.