Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Old Saint Patrick's Cathedral



This is the old Saint Patrick's Cathedral, on the corner of Prince and Mulberry two blocks or so from my old apartment on Elizabeth Street. It was built early in the 19th century, and was superseded as the seat of the bishopric by the newer St. Pat's on Fifth Avenue in the mid-1800s.




Corner of the wall around the Old Saint Patrick's graveyard. This is at the northwest corner of Prince and Mott.



You can see that there's a pronounced curve to the wall along Prince.



Here the bulwarks on the interior side of the Prince Street wall, preventing the wall from collapsing further inward.




Peering through a hole in the door into the graveyard at Old St. Patrick's cathedral.



The north graveyard.