Cathedral of the Incarnation Long Island NY

The Cathedral of the Incarnation is the Episcopal cathedral in Garden City, Long Island, NY. The building was designed by English-born architect, Henry Harrison (1813-1895) and built in 1876 to the memory of Alexander Turney Stewart and, as such, is the only cathedral in the USA funded by a single person.

The result is one of the most striking Gothic Revival churches in the region, noted for its 200ft spire, its stained-glass windows and, above all for its music ministry (since 2000, led by Canon Larry Tremsky) which has a long choral tradition.

Larry had, in fact, first contacted us in in 2005, having seen what we had designed for the Music Library and Song School at Bristol Cathedral (completed in 2001), to which he had recently paid a visit, and where he had admired how much the designs had improved the management of both the music and the running of choir rehearsals.

The design brief was to replace the static Gothic pews with dynamic flexible furniture to allow for worship in a variety of ways – one of many such schemes with which we’ve been involved (see also Sheffield Cathedral and Congregation Beit Simchat Torah). A number of scenarios evolved for improving the liturgical options, incorporating a group of 76 Charterhouse stacking pews and 260 'Coventry' chairs (see also Valparaiso Chapel of the Resurrection), stained to blend in with the existing interior. Accompanying all these were the chair and pew dollies to assist the handling and storage of the furniture.

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