Our Venue

Grace Church on-the-Hill is NYCO’s concert venue for the 2009-2010 season, and is located at 300 Lonsdale Road, Toronto.

Grace Church, the 15th Anglican Church in the City of Toronto, was established on September 17, 1874. Initially, services were held in a small rented frame building on Elizabeth Street until the original church was built on the south side of Elm Street, between Bay and Elizabeth. The cornerstone was laid in 1875, and the church formally opened on January 2nd, 1876.

Over time, as hospitals, armouries, factories and office buildings occupied the area surrounding the church, and very few members of the congregation lived within the parish boundaries, it was decided that the church should relocate to a new site. After much deliberation in 1911, property in the Hill District, or College Heights as it was originally called, on the northwest corner of Russell Hill Road and Lonsdale Road, was purchased from Lawrence Baldwin. In early December, 1911, the first services were held in Grace Church in the old frame building of Christ Church, Deer Park, which had been purchased for $300 and pulled by horse along Lonsdale from Yonge Street to Russell Hill. The organ, alter, baptismal font and pulpit were transferred from Elm Street. The same font now occupies a prominent spot just inside the main doors of the church and is used regularly for baptisms.

Grace Church on-the-Hill is wheelchair accessible.

Directions & Parking

To get to Grace Church on-the-Hill by public transit, use the Yonge subway line to get to St. Clair station. Transfer to the St. Clair streetcar and travel west to Russell Hill Road. Walk 2 blocks north to Lonsdale.

Parking may be available at Bishop Strachan School, 298 Lonsdale Rd.