From New York-
Staten Island really is a borough with more than its fair share of outstanding religious structures. Some of the most beautiful and important church campuses in the city are located here. One of the more outstanding is Christ Episcopal Church on Franklin Avenue.
Sited on a wide expanse of lawn and massive lot in New Brighton, the picturesque complex, including the church, parish house, rectory and cloisters, is an outstanding and, on Staten Island, rare example of turn-of-the-20th-century, neo-Gothic ecclesiastical design.
Christ Church was established in 1849; the present church (built 1903-04) and parish house (built 1906-07) replaced earlier buildings on the site. Their size and substantial construction are indicative of the importance of the church’s congregation, which in the early 1900s was regarded as “the largest and most fashionable” in the borough.
More here-
http://www.silive.com/homegarden/interiordesign/index.ssf/2011/10/a_taste_of_england_in_staten_i.html
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