Buildings and Rentals

The Buildings

The campus includes the church itself and several other buildings used for offices, fellowship, and meetings. Many can be rented for private events.

The Church

Grace Episcopal Church is built in the Gothic style of native red sandstone. A bluestone walkway and steps lead to the church’s huge oak doors in a Gothic frame.

Above, there is a stained glass Rose Window, a replica of one in Lincoln Cathedral. From the nave to the altar, Gothic arches of chestnut, forty feet high at the peak, are supported by twelve granite columns, patterned from Westminster Abbey, symbolizing the twelve apostles. The pews of carved chestnut are copied from early Saxon benches found in Surrey. 

In the walls are stained glass memorial windows in a style copied from Tintern Abbey. Behind and above the free standing altar and framing the stained glass Chancel windows is a mosaic mural of a beauty rarely encountered in American churches. In tiny, one inch marble pieces, two grape-vines in full foliage bear six Fruits of the Holy Ghost (Charity was mysteriously omitted). 

The sanctuary is heightened by exquisite and prize-winning needlepoint kneelers at the foot of the altar. The choir stalls sit at the rear of the church on a balcony overlooking the nave. In their midst sits a Cassavant organ. 

The nave seats 300 and is equipped with a complete voice amplification system and video equipment for live-streaming services.

The Parish House

The Parish House, connected to the main church by a walkway, contains a number of spaces across two stories.

Downstairs

Sacristy: a long, narrow space with cabinets and countertops, adjacent to the altar.

Vesting room: A small room with closets to store the vestments.

Memorial Hall: a large meeting room where weekly coffee hours and church dinners and events  are held, and where Boy Scouts, AA, Alanon, and other groups meet. A large kitchen connects with a door and a pass-through.

Fenton Room: a very small meeting room furnished with sofas and comfortable chairs.

Bradley Chapel: a beautifully appointed chapel used frequently for smaller and weekday services.

Patterson Hall: a smaller meeting room with a kitchenette.  A small parish library occupies the adjacent exterior entryway.

Upstairs

Choir rehearsal room: with a grand piano and seating for 30.

Classrooms: Used for Sunday School, and, during the week the Nursery School of the Nyacks.

The Thornley Suite: includes offices for the Treasurer and  Church School, and includes a women’s robing room.

Babbitt House: The rectory, is a 3 story, 4/5 bedroom, 3.5 bath 1890’s Arts and Crafts stucco with wood trim house. The ground floor has a kitchen, dining and living area, library and two fireplaces. 

Accessed by French doors is a wide side porch facing the Columbarium/Garden and church.

The second floor has 2/3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms, a sitting room and large laundry room. The attic floor has 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. There is a garage and a small backyard garden.

The Columbarium

The church garden includes an outdoor altar and Baptismal Font and is beautifully designed to comfort the bereaved and provide a lovely setting for summer coffee hours, summer services, and a place of rest and peace for the passer-by.

Other Properties

Across the street, the church owns three wood frame buildings:

137 First Ave. Two rental apartments

141 First Ave. A small rental house with a living room, dining room, kitchen, three bedrooms, a sun porch, and bath.

145 First Ave. Two rental apartments

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