Boston illustrated; . p colors,and resting on four unseen pyramids of blocks of stone weighing from one tofour tons each. These are 17 feet high, being 35 feet square at the base and 7feet at the top, and rest on piles, 2,000 of which were driven closely in thetower space, and bound together with two feet depth of concrete. The wallsof the churcli are of reddish Dedham and Westerly granite ashlar, with Long-meadow sandstone trimmings. The shape is that of a Latin cross, with a semi- 52 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. circular apse at the east, and short transepts. It is connected with its chapel hya hands
Boston illustrated; . p colors,and resting on four unseen pyramids of blocks of stone weighing from one tofour tons each. These are 17 feet high, being 35 feet square at the base and 7feet at the top, and rest on piles, 2,000 of which were driven closely in thetower space, and bound together with two feet depth of concrete. The wallsof the churcli are of reddish Dedham and Westerly granite ashlar, with Long-meadow sandstone trimmings. The shape is that of a Latin cross, with a semi- 52 BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. circular apse at the east, and short transepts. It is connected with its chapel hya handsome cloister. The interior is finished with black waliuit, and is lightedby many brilliant pictured windows. The sexton is present in the church from9 to 5 daily, and may be called at the side-door on Huntington Ave-nue. No visitors are admitted on Saturdays. The frescoes in Trinity Church are by John La Farge and several assistants,and are in encaustic painting, the colors being protected from dampness by a. Trinity Church. mixture of wax and other substances. In the great tower he has painted colos-sal figures of David and Moses, Peter and Paul, and Isaiah and Jeremiah, withseveral scriptural scenes high above ; and in the nave is a fresco of Cluist andthe Samaritan woman. The style of the construction of the building is afree rendering of the French Romanesque, as seen in the pyramidal-toweredchurches of Auvergue, and it endeavors to exemplify the grandeur and reposeof the eleventh-century architecture in Aquitaine. Among the novelties ofthis quarter of the citj, something old and venerable amid all its newness andfreshness, are the stones from old St. Botolphs Church, in Boston, Lincoln- BOSTON ILLUSTRATED. 53 shire, which the authorities of that church recently sent as a present to Trin-ity Church. Tliese mementoes of the parent society have been appropriatelyplaced amid the sujierb surroundings of the daughter church, in the cloisterbetween the church and chapel
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