St. Louis church is built on a cruciform plan with naves, sanctuary and transept

Sanctuary

• Sanctuary.
• Bosses contain lighting

High Altar in the sanctuary

Detail - High Altar.
Life-size statue of the church's patron, St. Louis IX (l2l4-1270), king of France.

Detail - High Altar.
Ebony cross with ivory crucified Christ.

Detail - High Altar.
Mosaic of Abraham about to sacrifice his son, Isaac

Detail - High Altar.
Mosaic of the offering of Melchisedech

Left: five magnificent columns of polished granite marble columns

• Hand carved pulpit depicting the four evangelists and doctors of the Church.
• South transept rose window

• Right: Pulpit
• North wall
• Note stations of the cross.

Station of the Cross

• Ribbed vaults
• Clerestory stained glass windows ...
• Gothic Revival arcade

• South side aisle
• Ribbed vaults
• Side aisles are nineteen feet wide and thirty-six feet in height.

North transept. Also at each end of the transept, at the same height as the clerestory, is a rose window, a circle of stained glass, twenty-two feet in diameter, with divided compartments and tracery radiating from the center.

Detail from north transept.
Above the confessionals, below the rose window are four fresco paintings of the evangelists (in the example above, St. John)

• Confessional in south transept.
• Gothic styled pinnacles with spires covered with crockets.

• 1903 Kimball Organ in choir loft in west end.
• This Kimball organ is NOT from the Pan-American Exposition.

• Detail - choir loft
• Note trefoils

Door leading to the narthex

Detail

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