Gothic Archway, St. Patrick's Cathedral

Sacred stone and soaring light — this fine art photograph of a Gothic archway inside St. Patrick's Cathedral captures the breathtaking interior of one of New York's most beloved and magnificent buildings, a moment of stillness and grandeur in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. St. Patrick's Cathedral, completed in 1878 and designed by James Renwick Jr. in the French Gothic style, is one of the finest examples of Gothic Revival architecture in America. Its interior is a world apart from the city outside: the soaring pointed arches, the ribbed vaulting, the deep shadows and pools of colored light from the stained glass windows all combine to create a space of extraordinary spiritual and aesthetic power. This photograph looks upward through one of the cathedral's great Gothic arches, the stone tracery and vaulting receding into the heights above, the light falling in long shafts through the nave. It is the kind of image that stops you — the scale, the craftsmanship, the sense of something built to last for centuries. A piece of New York's sacred architecture for your wall. Printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper with optional acrylic glass or Alu-Dibond mounting for a gallery-quality finish.