The San Francisco call., 1909-06-05
NEW ST. IGNATIUS
SITE is SELECTED
Church Picks Block Bounded by
Cole, Shrader, Fulton and
Grove Streets
Edifice Will Command View OF
Bay, Ocean and Entire City
From It's Location

On an eminence which will command
the Pacific on the west, San Francisco
on the east, the downtown centers Of
the city, the Mission. Richmond, Sun
set and the Western addition, the new
church of st. Ignatius is soon to be
Iereeted on scale more magnificent
and noble than was the famous old
Jesuit church at Van Ness avenue and
Hayes street. The new site is in the
block bounded by Cole, Shrader. Full
ton and Grove streets. The church
will be located at the northwest corner
of Cole and Grove streets. with its
Ignatius college will be located in Full
ton street. and the community houses
will front in Grove street. The plans
for the church have been finished by
Charles j. l. Devlin, the architect. and
construction is to begin about August
1, according to the present plans.
ENDS MANY RUMoRS
The announcement that the work on
the church is soon to begin on the
block above described puts an end to
the various rumors current that pur
chases of real estate in adjacent blocks
have been for the church site. The
new location will be one block from
the present temporary church at
Shrader and Hayes streets. The Jesuit
fathers would not discuss the build
stood in church circles that the work
on the new church will soon be under
way.
The projected ST. Ignatius church
will be built OF steel, concrete and
terra Gotta. It's interior and altar fin
ishings will be on more sublime scale
than were those of the building de-
stroyed- by fire and which-was the most
magnificent religious house in Call
fornia.
The seating capacity of the new st.
Ignatius will be 1,672. The frontage
over all will be 205 feet and the width
OF the church, excluding the projec-
tions of entrances, will be 15S feet.
The length from the portico to the
rear of the main altar will be 247 feet.
On each side of the entrance will be
pedestaled statues. On the right, as
one enters the edifice. will be the baptis-
terry. and on the left the gallery stairs.
Within the outer doors is to be a vesti-
bule of Sc by II feet. From the inner
wall to the pulpit the church Will be
$50 feet deep. The interior will be
104 feet wide. There will be five aisles.
The sanctuary will be so by 63 feet.
INTERIOR ARRANGEMENTS
On the right hand side will be ST
Joseph's altar and on the left the
Virgin Mary's sanctuary. On each side
win be two affairs and four confess
sional bays. Between those bays and
affairs and the aisles will be an ambu-
latory eight feet wide. In addition to
the main entrance there will be for
the congregation a north entrance
opening on a court and a south en-
trance opening into Grove street. The
priests sacristies will be on either side
of the main altar and behind the altar
will be the sacristy for acolytes.
Connected with the church by a wide
passage will be the community house.
fronting in Shrader street. The com
munity yard and terraces will be To-
Gated at the corner of Shrader and
Fulton streets. Midway in the block
in Fulton street will be the college
which will be larger than the former
college building in Van Ness avenue
The students yard will be north of
the church at the corner of Fulton
and Cole streets.
The detail drawings of the elevation
have not yet been completed by the
architect but will soon be ready for
inspection by the Jesuit fathers. The
cost of the completed structure is not
yet made public, but it will be in the
hundreds of thousands of dollars. The
block on which the church and col
lege will be placed was recently pur-
chased from M. H. de Young for
100000 1t is near the proposed site
of st. Mary's hospital.