St Patrick's Cathedral New York

Reverend Joseph A Tytheridge of St Patrick's Cathedral

St Patrick's Cathedral, 5th Avenue, New York

New York New York

My Daughter and I have just returned from a week in New York. Our travels took us down the famous 5th Avenue. There between 50th and 51st Street and opposite the Rockefeller Centre we saw the inpressive St Patrick's Roman Catholic Cathedral which was built in 1858 - 1878 in neo-gothic style. Inside the cathedral was beautiful and below I have shared with you some of the pictures of stained glass windows, mosaics and statues - it was a place of beauty and the pictures do  not do it justice.

It was here that Joseph Tytheridge was priest for fourteen years during the period 1926 - 1940. This was the period when the Rockefeller skycraper buildings were appearing across the street.  This was also time the famous statue of Atlas holding up the heavens, which was created by Lee Lawrie in an art deco stye, was installed opposite the cathedral steps in 1937.

Joseph Tytheridge

I originally wrote about Joseph in February 2015. The story can be reread at this link.

click here for the earlier blog on Joseph Tytheridge

Since that time I have found a copy of his obituary which is shown below and summarises his life.

Obituary from Sullivan County Record

Thursday 3 July 1952, Sullivan County Record, Jeffersonville New York

REV. JOSEPH A. TYTHERIDGE

Rev. Joseph A. Tytheridge, pastor at St. Peter’s Catholic Church at Liberty since Nov. 1, 1949, died at Liberty-Loomis Hospital early Friday morning. He was taken to the hospital at 1:15 a. m. Thursday and died at 1:55 a. m. Friday.

Father Tytheridge, who served several pastorates in the metropolitan area, including 12 years as assistant priest at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City, was born in New York May 6, 1896, the son of Joseph and Mary Bell, Tytheridge. He is survived by one brother, Harry D., of New York.
Father Tytheridge was graduated from St. Charles Borromeo Elementary School, New York, and from All Hallows High School, New York, and from Cathedral College, New York. He studied at North American College in Rome, and was ordained at St. Paul Latteran Church in Rome May 26 1923. His first appointment was to St. John The Baptist Church at Dunwoodie, N. Y.

Prior to coming to Liberty Father Tytheridge was administrator at Immaculate Conception Amenia Church, New York City. He served as assistant priest at St. Patrick's Cathedral from 1926 to 1940.

Divine office was recited at 10:30 Monday at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Liberty, for Father Tytheridge. There was a solemn high requiem mass at 11 a. m. Monday at St. Peter’s. The body was taken New York Monday afternoon where there was a solemn high mass at the Church of Our Savious, 183rd St. and Washington Avenue, The Bronx, Tuesday. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, Brooklyn.

We now believe that the link below, showing a picture of a gravestone in Calvary Cemetery, is his gravestone

click here to see the gravestone

Views inside beautiful St Patrick's Cathedral where Joseph worked for 14 years

pictures of the statue of Atlas opposite the cathedral