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CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL
620 LIPAN STREET

This Church was built in 1940 and renovated in 1980. The architects and builders were C. L. Monnot, Welsh Burney and Jim Rome. This structure replaced St. Patrick Cathedral that was heavily damaged by fire in 1938. Built during 1853 in the 800 block of Tancahua. St. Patrick Cathedral was the City's first adobe Catholic Church. The Church was named for a patron saint of Ireland because of the large Irish Catholic population of Corpus Christi. The Corpus Christi Cathedral is a three story buff brick structure with three east facing symmetrically arranged bays. It has Romanesque style arches at the parapet and two arched bell towers that rise from the foundation and have mosaic tile domes surmounted by crosses. The decorative oval windows are designed to emulate windows at San Jose Mission in San Antonio. The interior is highly ornate with green marble, wrought iron, a frescoed dome over altar, gold leaf on walls, carved wood pews and pulpit, heavy wood exposed timbers in ceiling and wrought iron and bronze light fixtures.

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