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

[Ann Markle]

Wow, this is gorgeous!  I wish I had resources -- what a wonderful
music/art/worship venue this could be!  We've got a huge old Methodist
church here in Buffalo that Ani DiFranco bought and re-named "Babeville."
There are a couple of concert areas, an art gallery for mostly local shows,
and I don't know what else.  Adding a worship service or two wouldn't be
beyond imagination.  It could be such a cool place, especially on a college
campus, but also reaching out to the larger community.  Looks like room for
offices or not-for-profits, maybe.  I hate to see this beautiful place just
sit idle and deteriorate.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 1:28 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Liturgical music as well as a lot of classical music must have been
> wonderful in this stone space with timbered vault.
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> 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.
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> The answer is, nothing.
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> http://www.facilities.upenn.edu/maps/locations/divinity-site-main-chapel
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> http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v56/n27/images_n27/slideshow/index.htm
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> David Strang.
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