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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
