The builder has re-opened the sales cen­tre! They have less than 10 lofts left – which won’t last long. We would be happy to accom­pany you to the sales cen­tre – con­tact us directly at 416−388−1960 or email laurin@jeffreyteam.com

The Abbey Lofts are located in a con­verted 1911 neo-Gothic church sit­u­ated between Ron­ces­valles Avenue and High Park in a high-demand com­mu­nity with great shop­ping, restau­rants and nightlife, and lots of room for recre­ation in Toronto’s most beau­ti­ful down­town park. Pub­lic trans­porta­tion, a five-minute walk to the Bloor sub­way line, is excel­lent, and there are three street­cars nearby, run­ning along Col­lege, Dun­das, and King.

The Abbey Lofts is a 24 unit project cre­ated in a neo-Gothic church that was built in the Medieval Revival style in 1911. The light-grey solid lime­stone walls and stone cladding of archi­tect William George Burns’ church, built for a Methodist con­gre­ga­tion, are unchanged in nearly a cen­tury. The 90-foot church tower, built with the same lime­stone, quar­ried in St. Mary Ontario, is a square cam­panile with pseudo ‘bat­tle­ments’ on top.

The church itself has changed names and con­gre­ga­tions sev­eral times. In 1925, the Methodists merged with other Protes­tant denom­i­na­tions, and set up the Howard Park United Church. Then in 1970, the United Church con­gre­ga­tion left the build­ing and it was acquired by a group of Ital­ian evan­gel­i­cals. In 2003, they in turn moved from their Howard Street Pen­te­costal Church to a new build­ing in Vaughan. The church on Sun­ny­side Avenue, in the High Park-Bloor area, was acquired by the cur­rent developers.

Inside the for­mer church, one Abbey Lofts unit has retained the three orig­i­nal solid wood church doors, fronting onto a 30-foot ter­race. The ele­gant, arched doors have glass insets. Almost every unit has orig­i­nal exposed walls, some with 13-foot ceil­ings in sunken liv­ing rooms.

The medieval Revival style is also referred to as Tudor, as in Eng­lish archi­tec­ture from the early 16^th cen­tury. Some aspects of the Tudor style were bor­rowed from late Medieval cas­tles or palaces, which often had over­lap­ping gables, para­pets, and pat­terned brick or stonework. Medieval churches were often for­ti­fied places of sanc­tu­ary and the Sun­ny­side church has some of the fea­tures of a for­ti­fi­ca­tion, but with a huge arched stained glass win­dow to let light into the vaulted structure.

The Abbey Lofts have open-concept liv­ing spaces, with galley-style kitchens and island eat­ing areas. Some have stairs down to sunken liv­ing rooms, which can lead to a den or extra bed­room reached through dou­ble doors.

The archi­tects have taken care to retain as much of the orig­i­nal 1911 Edwar­dian inte­rior as pos­si­ble. There are orig­i­nal, exposed lime­stone walls, orig­i­nal church doors (with newer win­dows) and stained glass archways.

The ceil­ings are very high and help to cre­ate a large open atrium-style space. The walk­out to a 30 foot ter­race itself is large enough for an ‘out­side’ lifestyle. The mas­ter bed­room has good closet space and a large en suite bath­room with shower stall.

The Ron­ces­valles/High Park area is desir­able for young pro­fes­sion­als and exec­u­tives alike, with Sun­ny­side Park, the Boule­vard Club, the Toronto Sail­ing Club, the Arg­onaut Row­ing Club, Ontario Place and the Mar­tin Good­man trail about 15–20 min­utes by foot to the south on the shore­line of Lake Ontario.

* We are not affil­i­ated with the builder in any way. We rep­re­sent you, the buyer, and work to try to get you the best deal.

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