Desloge Chapel

Desloge Chapel is a Gothic church in St. Louis, Missouri. Located at Grand Avenue and Vista Avenue, it was designed by Gothic revivalist architect Ralph Adams Cram to echo the Sainte-Chapelle chapel in Paris.

Built in 1931-33 for the Firmin Desloge Hospital, now St. Louis University Medical Center, the chapel serves as an ecumenical pastoral chapel for the hospital complex, and is formally designated the Chapel of Christ the Crucified King by the Roman Catholic church within the Archdiocese of St. Louis.

Like the hospital it serves, the Desloge Chapel was underwritten by gifts from the family of Firmin V. Desloge, one of the oldest French families in the United States and wealthy through lead mining and other endeavors. Firmin's wife Lydia Holden Davis Desloge gave $100,000 ($1,433,665 today) to build the chapel.

Roman Catholic Archbishop John Glennon laid the cornerstone of the hospital on June 22, 1931, and consecrated the chapel on November 9, 1933.

In 1952, the funeral of the founder's son, Firmin V. Desloge II, was held at the chapel.

In 1998, Saint Louis University sold the Chapel, along with the Hospital, to Tenet Healthcare Corp., a for-profit chain based in Dallas.

In 2015, the university bought back the hospital, then sold it to SSM Health, "the Creve Coeur-based health care system sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Mary, formerly Sisters of Saint Mary.

The stained glass windows were planned by Father Maurice B.McNamee, designed by Rodney Winfield, and fabricated by Emil Frei Associates in 1983. An artisan since 1898, Emil Frei also designed the stained glass windows for St. Louis University's St. Francis Xavier (College) Church. (Frei's son, Emil III, became an American physician and oncologist at Firmin Desloge Hospital.) An earlier plan, with windows depicting Jesuit missions in North America, was created by the firm of Reynolds, Francis & Rohnstock of Boston.

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