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Grace Cathedral, San Francisco Grace Cathedral is an Episcopal cathedral on Nob Hill, San Francisco, California. It is the cathedral church of the Episcopal Diocese of California.
Grace Cathedral
The cathedral is famed for its mosaics by Jan Henryk De Rosen,[5] a replica of Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, two labyrinths, varied stained glass windows, Keith Haring AIDS Chapel altarpiece, and medieval and contemporary furnishings, as well as its forty-four bell carillon, three organs, and choirs. The cathedral has one of only a handful of remaining Episcopal men and boys cathedral choirs, the Grace Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys; the 24 boys of the choir attend the Cathedral School for Boys, while the 12 men are a professional ensemble. There is also a mixed-voice adult choir. The director of music and choirmaster is Ben Bachmann. The Very Reverend Alan Jones retired as dean in 2009.[6] He was also the moderator of The Forum at Grace Cathedral. In 2010, the Rev. Canon Jane Shaw was installed as the eighth dean of Grace Cathedral.[7] She left Grace Cathedral in September 2014 to become to Dean for Religious Life and Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University [8] In 2015, the Rev. Malcolm Clemens Young became the ninth Dean of Grace Cathedral.[1]
Cathedral and adjacent (right) headquarters of the Episcopal Diocese of California
Contents History Works by Jan Henryk De Rosen Ghiberti doors Labyrinths Windows Carillon In popular culture List of deans See also
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References External links
History
Basic information
The cathedral's ancestral parish, Grace Church, was founded in 1849 during the California Gold Rush. The cathedral is the daughter of the historic Grace Church. The first little chapel was built in the gold rush year of 1849 and the imposing third church, for a time called Grace "cathedral", was destroyed in the fire following the 1906 earthquake. The
Location
1100 California Street
family of a railroad baron and banker, William Henry Crocker, gave their ruined Nob Hill property for a diocesan cathedral,[9] which took its name and founding congregation from the nearby parish.
San Francisco
In 1865, Mark Twain published (in The Californian newspaper) purported private correspondence between himself and potential short-term rectors,[10][11] satirizing the
Geographic coordinates
States 37°47¢30²N 122°24¢47²W
church's efforts to find a short-term rector in the 1860s and 1870s. Among the short-term rectors were roll film inventor Hannibal Goodwin and James Smith Bush, the great-
Affiliation
Episcopal Diocese of California
Dean J. Wilmer Gresham nurtured the young cathedral and work began on the present structure in 1928. Designed in French Gothic style by Lewis P. Hobart, it was completed
District
Nob Hill
in 1964 as the third largest Episcopal cathedral in the nation.
State
California
On March 28, 1964, Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a sermon at Grace Cathedral as part of the festival celebrating its completion and consecration. The service took place on the
Region
United States
fourth Sunday of Lent. Approximately 5,000 people were present to hear King's sermon. It was the largest gathering at the cathedral for the next 37 years, until the September
Country
United States of America
11, 2001, memorial service took place.[13]
Ecclesiastical or Cathedral organizational status
grandfather of former US President George H. W. Bush and great-great-grandfather of former US President George W. Bush.[12]
Works by Jan Henryk De Rosen Grace Cathedral has a significant collection of varied works by Jan Henryk De Rosen.[5] Among these are a faux-tile mural behind the Chapel of Grace reredos from 1932, the mural in the Chapel of the Nativity's Adoration from 1946 showing the Holy Family with the magi and shepherds. At the donor's request, the original angels hovering above
Status
Active
Leadership
Malcolm Clemens Young (dean [1])
Website
Official website (http://ww w.gracecathedral.org)
were removed by the artist, however constellations still mark their place. De Rosen also included a little image of his boyhood home in Warsaw in the mural.[5] On a smaller scale, De Rosen painted exquisite panels for the original old high altar which is now in the Chapel of St. Francis columbarium. The most visible works of De Rosen in Grace Cathedral are the historical aisle murals that were painted in 1949 and 1950 and composed in a style blending elements of the
Architectural description
early Italian masters Giotto and Mantegna.[5]
Ghiberti doors The cathedral entrance has a large pair of doors, often called the "Ghiberti doors". They are reproductions of the doors of the Florence Baptistery by Lorenzo Ghiberti, also dubbed the "Gates of Paradise".[14]
Architect(s)
Lewis P. Hobart[2]
Architectural style
French Gothic[2]
Groundbreaking 1928[2]
In 1943, the Nazi occupation government ordered the original doors to be removed from the Florence baptistery, along with other portable artworks, to protect them from bombing and possibly to give Hermann Göring a chance to add them to his collection.[15] They were hidden in a disused railway tunnel until 1944, and latex casts were made after their rediscovery. The replica doors were cast in 1956 from molds of the original doors and were destined for a war memorial, but when financing for the memorial fell through, San Francisco philanthropist Charles D. Field bought these replicas, and they were then shipped to San Francisco and installed on the newly completed church in time for its official dedication in 1964.[14][15] The original Ghiberti doors are no longer installed in the baptistery as corrosion and weathering led conservators to decide that they must be preserved in a museum under a totally dry and controlled atmosphere. The doors now in the baptistery are also modern replicas installed in 1991.[15]
Labyrinths
1964[2]
Completed
Specifications Direction of façade
East
Length
329 feet (100 m)[3]
Width
162 feet (49 m)[3]
Height (max)
174 feet (53 m)[3]
San Francisco Designated Landmark
Laid out on the floor of Grace Cathedral is a labyrinth that is based on the famous medieval labyrinth of Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres (The Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres) located in Chartres, France.[16] It is said that if a visitor walks the pattern of the labyrinth it will bring them to a meditative state. There is also another labyrinth
Designated
5 August 1984[4]
Reference no.
170
outside of the cathedral in its courtyards.
Windows Contained in the cathedral are 7,290 square feet (677 m2 ) of stained glass windows by noted artists that depict over 1100 figures ranging from Adam and Eve to Albert Einstein.[17] 32 windows or window groups, dating from 1930 to 1966, were designed by American Charles Connick and his Boston studio. Connick windows include the Chapel of Grace and baptistry window series that contains over 32,000 pieces of glass and covers nearly 833 square feet (77.4 m2 ).[18] The cathedral also contains 24 faceted windows by Gabriel Loire of Chartres, France, including the Human Endeavor series depicting John Glenn, Thurgood Marshall, Jane Addams, Robert Frost, and Einstein. Between 1995-1998 several of the cathedral's choir and aisle windows were restored by Reflection Studios of Emeryville, California.[17]
Carillon
Three-quarters view of cathedral
The carillon was the gift of Nathaniel T. Coulson, a San Francisco dentist and realtor who came from Lostwithiel in Cornwall. When Coulson first arrived in San Francisco in 1875, he found his way to Grace Church, which lacked a bell tower. Although a Methodist, he vowed to provide bells for the church and eventually spent his life savings to realize his dream and to erect the Singing (north) Tower to house them.[19] The carillon consists of forty-four bronze bells, cast and tuned at the Gillett & Johnston Foundry of Croydon, England, in 1938. The bells arrived before the cathedral tower was completed, so they spent their first years on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay as the centerpiece of the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition. The carillon was first played from its Singing Tower home on Christmas Eve, 1940, and was formally dedicated in 1943. The bells have been rung to mark a number of important events, including D-Day and the centenary of the San Francisco cable car system.[20]
In popular culture Photographer Ansel Adams produced a series of photographs of the uncompleted cathedral in 1935.[21] "Grace Cathedral Park" is the first song on Red House Painters' first self-titled album. "Grace Cathedral Hill" is Track 7 on The Decemberists' Castaways and Cutouts album. It recounts a New Year's Eve experience in which the singer and his sullen (presumably grieving)
From California Street
female companion visit the church to light candles. Alfred Hitchcock filmed an abduction scene for his final film, Family Plot, in the cathedral in 1975. It also appeared in The Pleasure of His Company (1961), Bullitt (1968), Time After Time (1979), Bicentennial Man (1999),[22] and The Room (2003). Jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi recorded The Grace Cathedral Concert at the cathedral on May 21, 1965.[23][24] Duke Ellington performed his televised Concert of Sacred Music at the cathedral on September 26, 1965.[24] Bay Area local resident, Greg Kihn and the Greg Kihn Band, a popular rock group of the 1980s, filmed some of their MTV "Jeopardy" video inside Grace Detail of the doors
Cathedral in 1983. Armistead Maupin's iconic Tales of the City series has an Episcopal cannibal cult operating out of Grace Cathedral as one of its sub-plots. In the TV adaptation,
Maupin plays a cameo role as a priest of Grace Cathedral, but the cathedral interiors were actually filmed in Montreal.
List of deans
Ghiberti doors
As of 2016 Grace Cathedral has had nine deans.[25] J. Wilmer Gresham (1928 – 1939) Thomas Wright (1941 – 1943) Bernard Lovgren (1946 – 1951) C. Julian Bartlett (1956 – 1975) Stanley Rogers (1975 – 1977) David Gillespie (1978 – 1985) Alan Jones (1985 – 2009) Jane Shaw (2010 – 2014) Malcolm Clemens Young (2015 – present)
See also List of the Episcopal cathedrals of the United States List of cathedrals in the United States
References
Labyrinth in Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, 2013
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Labyrinth inside Grace Cathedral
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Grace Cathedral front façade
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External links Grace Cathedral website (http://www.gracecathedral.org/) Cathedrals of California website (https://web.archive.org/web/20071012205719/http://www.cathedralsofcalifornia.com/) Grace Cathedral Names Jane Alison Shaw as its Eighth Dean (http://www.gracecathedral.org/welcome/overview/cathedralnews/detail/index.php?eid=1191) U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Grace Cathedral (https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1655403) Grace Cathedral Columbarium (https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1721120) at Find a Grave Panorama QTVR panorama from the nave (http://www.gracecathedral.org/church/tour/qtvrfiles/mainhall1.mov) Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Grace_Cathedral,_San_Francisco&oldid=814043591"
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