The Globe and Mail

For once, "cathedral ceiling" is not an exaggeration. At a 100-year-old Anglican church near Bloor Street and Dovercourt Avenue, a sensitive conversion to loft-condominiums by architect Ferdinand Wagner and designers Elaine Cecconi and Anna Simone is preserving the church's soaring, timbered, Gothic-arched ceiling. And that's not the only glorious feature being incorporated into a residential project that sets a new standard in the often unimaginative world of converting redundant churches into buildings for modern uses. At The Westmoreland, which sold out in a single public information session a year before its March, 2005, occupancy date -- mostly to family and friends of its creators -- residents will roll their sushi in kitchens lined with stone columns and Gothic brick arches, and watch their plasma-screen TVs in rooms lit by stained-glass windows with scenes of crucifixions and saints.