Christ Church, in

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, is a parish in the

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. It is located at 141 East Avenue. The church was listed on the

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in 2008. The church is a large

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building made of "rock-faced red

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sandstone". It sports

buttresses A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient (typically Gothic) buildings, as a means of providing support to act a ...

and

flying buttresses The flying buttress (''arc-boutant'', arch buttress) is a specific form of buttress composed of a ramping arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass, to convey to the ground the lateral forces that push a wall out ...

. an
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* Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Churches completed in 1894 19th-century Episcopal church buildings Churches in Rochester, New York Episcopal church buildings in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Rochester, New York {{NewYork-Anglican-church-stub