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Exterior - Trinity Church in the City of Boston
206 Clarendon Street, Boston, MA 02116
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Date: | 1872-77 |
Architect: |
H. H. Richardson The Trinity parish was originally founded in 1733 in downtown Boston. In 1870, Phillips Brooks, the Parish Rector from 1869–1891, selected Henry Hobson Richardson, his classmate at Harvard, as the architect for a new church building. Construction began in 1873 after the original site burned down in the Boston Fire in 1872. |
Landscape architect: |
Frederick Law Olmsted |
Style: |
Richardsonian Romanesque |
Exterior building material: |
Massachusetts and New Hampshire granite. |
Facade / West elevation ![]() ![]() ![]() Polychromy ... Crockets on terra cotta roof ... Paired corner belfries ![]() ![]() Arcades ![]() Contrasting colors in Romanesque billet pattern ![]() Winged demon gargoyles ... Louvers indicate a belfry ![]() Chevron molding .. Voussoirs ... Foliated capitals (details in next photo below) ... Greek cross ![]() Foliated capitals ![]() Main entrance |
![]() Prophet Isaiah ... Four figures to left of entrance ... Water carriers to right of entrance ... St. Matthew ... Mary, Elizabeth and Anna in arcaded niches ... Saint Mark ... Baptism of Jesus ... Three medallions below columns. Details below: ![]() Prophet Isaiah ![]() Four figures to left of entrance ![]() Water carriers to right of entrance ![]() St. Matthew ![]() Mary, Elizabeth and Anna in arcaded niches ![]() Saint Mark ![]() Bead-and-reel ... Ivy ... Baptism of Jesus ![]() St. Mark icon: winged lion ![]() St. Matthew icon: winged man ![]() Trinity icon |
![]() The church is reflected in I.M. Pei’s modern Hancock Tower, its neighbor on Copley Square. |