St. Patrick's Church - Enfield, CT
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N 41° 59.815 W 072° 35.955
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The Romanesque Revival style St. Patrick's Church is located at 64 Pearl Street in the Thomsonville section of Enfield, CT.
Waymark Code: WM136T5
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 09/29/2020
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Irish immigrants who came to Connecticut to work on the Windsor Locks Canal or at the Bigelow Carpet Mills form the first Catholic congregation in Enfield, CT. They built a wood church at the corner of Pearl and Cross Streets in 1860. In 1863 they organized as St. Patrick's parish. As the Catholic population expanded there became a need for a new building.
The cornerstone for the present building dates to 1889. The church was designed in the Romanesque Revival style by architect Patrick Charles Keely and completed in 1904. It was dedicated by Bishop Michael A. Tierney on November 20, 1904. (
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The massive church building is 80' wide by 170' long. It is constructed of brownstone blocks. The projecting front façade is three bays wide. The ground level contains double wooden doors on each side of a brownstone staircase. The stairs lead up to a double door entrance with a relief sculpture of a bishop beneath the rounded top. The entrance is flanked by a pair of windows with rounded tops. On the level above the entrance is a large double window with a rounded top. It is flanked by tall recesses in the form a window. On top is a gable roof with a gold cross at the apex.
On the west side of the main block is a projecting tower with a staircase entrance and a window on the upper level. On the east side is a staircase entrance and a window on the upper level topped by a slanted roof line then a three story round tower with a conical roof. Farther south on the east side is a two story round tower with an entrance at ground level and a conical roof. The transept of the church has a double set of windows and projects a short distance from the main church block. Both sides of the church are six bays deep with windows on each bay.
The back of the church has staircase entrances and then ground level entrances on each side. Between the entrances is a large, wide circular tower with a conical roof. A belfry is located on the roof just beyond this large tower.
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