3053 Kingsbridge Ave
1908-14, Henry Vaughn

This congregation's first church was a wooden structure that opened in 1857. After 50 years, they were able to begin construction of a new building, but it would take another six years to be completed. Nicknamed the "Little Cathedral of the Bronx, it was officially named Church of the Mediator in 1921. Designed by famed architect Henry Vaughan, this Gothic Revival structure rises approximately four stories in height, with a steep pitched roof. The main façade features a double-height pointed- arch stained-glass window, flanked by a pair of stone buttresses, beneath of which is the entrance with an enclosed porch. A stone tower rises at the northwestern corner of the building, with Gothic arched windows with wooden tracework. Vaughan's work includes the National Cathedral in Washington D.C., as well as three Chapels of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, the Mother Church of the Diocese of New York. This is believed to be the only church where he included internal buttresses in the structure. Photo courtesy of the NY State Historic Preservation Office.