Trinity Church in the City of Boston

Trinity Church in the City of Boston. . , Trinity Church in the City of Boston , This bronze tablet offers a rendering of the second building of Trinity Church erected on this site in 1829., 1734 , As the third Anglican parish in Pre-Revolutionary Boston, the founders of Trinity Church gathered at this corner in a wood-framed structure of 5,400 square feet. In contrast to its plain Colonial style exterior without tower or steeple, the interior is reputed to have been richly decorated with carved Corinthian pillars and fine paintings. The sole artifacts to have survived from this building are four oil paintings of cherubs, two of which have been reinterpreted to create the background wallpaper for this display. , 1829 , The work of architect George W. Brimmer, a Trinity parishioner, this early Gothic Revival creation was destroyed in the Great Fire that swept through 63 acres of downtown Boston in 1872. The burgeoning Episcopal parish, then led by the nationally-celebrated preacher Phillips Brooks, had two years earlier voted to leave this business-dominated district and relocate to the newly laid out, residential Back Bay neighborhood. , 1877 , Shown here from the southeast is the masterful and celebrated New Renaissance structure designed under the leadership of Phillips Brooks by the then young architects Henry Hobson Richardson. The first building to be branded Richardsonian Romanesque, Trinity Church has been considered one of the top ten buildings in America every eyear since its completion. The church’s imposing presence that dominates Copley Square continues to house and serve a large and dynamic Episcopal parish. . This historical marker is in Downtown Crossing in Boston in Suffolk County Massachusetts