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Church of the Holy Child Jesus
(Episcopal)
110 Wolcott Street near Van Brunt Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11231
In the 1860s, Christ Church, at Clinton and Harrison Streets, started a new mission field in the Red Hook area of Brooklyn. A Sunday school was organized on Sullivan Street, near Van Brunt Street, and at some point, a large Sunday school building and Parish House accomodating 1,200 persons were built at a cost of $26,000. In 1868, Christ Chapel was built on Wolcott Street, directly behind the Sunday school, at a reported cost of $15,000. This chapel served the mission for over 30 years until 1899, when it was deemed unsafe and torn down.
Construction on the second chapel began in the summer of 1899, with the laying of the cornerstone taking place on September 3rd of that year. The brick structure is trimmed with light stone and has a facade that is 50 feet wide and 67 feet high. An arcaded porch shelters the main entrance to the chapel, above which is a large wheel window. In the basement of the 200-foot-long building is a gymnasium. Christ Chapel was consecrated by Bishop Littlejohn on May 27, 1900. The chapel was designed by the W. & G. Audsley firm of New York City, a partnership of William James Audsley and his brother, George Ashdown Audsley. George was an accomplished architect, artist, illustrator, writer, decorator and pipe organ 'architect'; he is perhaps best known for designing the St. Louis Exposition organ which was the nucleus of the present-day Wanamaker Organ of Philadelphia.
At some point, Christ Chapel became an independent congregation known as Church of the Holy Child Jesus. This congregation disbanded or was consolidated with another in the 1970s. The building is now home to the Red Hook Pentecostal Holiness Church. |
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James M. Mandeville
New York City (1884)
Mechanical action
2 manuals, 15 stops, 17 ranks
The only known pipe organ for Christ Chapel was built in 1884 by James M. Mandeville of New York City. This organ was presumably installed in the first chapel building, and then moved to the second building in 1900. In the second chapel, the organ was located on the left side of the chancel, and had an attached console with terraced, oblique stop knobs. The lower octave of the 8' Open Diapason was incorporated into the dark oak woodwork of the facade, which mirrored the woodwork that contained the sacristy on the opposite side of the chancel.
This organ was moved to St. Andrew Episcopal Church in Astoria, Queens. |
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Great Organ (Manual I) – 61 notes
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8 |
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Open Diapason |
61 |
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8 |
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Keraulophone (TC) |
49 |
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grooved, stopped bass with Melodia; marked Dulciana |
8 |
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Melodia |
61 |
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4 |
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Principal |
61 |
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4 |
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Flute |
61 |
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pipes marked 'Harmonique Flute'; no harmonic pipes |
2 |
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Gemshorn Fifteenth |
61 |
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non-tapering |
8 |
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Trumpet |
61 |
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Swell Organ (Manual II) – 61 notes, enclosed (behind and a little above the Great)
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16 |
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Bourdon bass |
12 |
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16 |
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Bourdon treble (TC) |
49 |
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wood with square stoppers |
8 |
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Geigen Principal (TC) |
49 |
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common bass with Stopped Diapason |
8 |
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Stopped Diapason (TC) |
49 |
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stopped wood & metal chimney flute |
8 |
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Stopped Diapason bass |
12 |
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CC – BB stopped metal |
4 |
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Violina |
61 |
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Mixture III ranks |
183 |
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Mixture |
| CC |
2-2/3' |
2' |
1-3/5' |
| c25 |
4' |
2-2/3' |
2' |
| c37 |
8' |
4' |
2-2/3' |
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8 |
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Oboe |
61 |
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Tremolo |
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Pedal Organ – 30 notes
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16 |
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Bourdon |
30 |
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wood |
8 |
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Flute |
30 |
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wood (pipes removed prior to 1969) |
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Couplers
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Swell to Pedal 8' |
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Great to Pedal 8' |
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Swell to Great 8' |
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Swell to Great 4' |
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Sources:
"A Home Mission Work," Brooklyn Eagle (May 31, 1891).
"Christ Chapel Begun," Brooklyn Eagle (Sep. 4, 1899).
"Christ Chapel Consecrated," Brooklyn Eagle (May 28, 1899).
"The New Christ Chapel," Brooklyn Eagle (Nov. 9, 1899).
Trupiano, Larry. Specifications of James M. Mandeville organ (1884).
Illustration:
Lawson, Steven E. Exterior. |
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