. Rand, McNally Boston guide to the city and environs, with maps and illustrations ... ing the seige at Boston, theBritish used the church as a riding school, after burning thepulpit and the pews for firewood. The Old South Associationnow has the building under its care. The small fee asked forviewing the loan collection of Revolutiinary relics, colonialfurniture, and portraits is used for maintenance. Kings Chapel is at the comer of School and Tremont in 1688 was established the first Episcopal church of thetown. Opposition to it was so great that Governor Androshad to appropriate a
. Rand, McNally Boston guide to the city and environs, with maps and illustrations ... ing the seige at Boston, theBritish used the church as a riding school, after burning thepulpit and the pews for firewood. The Old South Associationnow has the building under its care. The small fee asked forviewing the loan collection of Revolutiinary relics, colonialfurniture, and portraits is used for maintenance. Kings Chapel is at the comer of School and Tremont in 1688 was established the first Episcopal church of thetown. Opposition to it was so great that Governor Androshad to appropriate a part of the old burying ground in order tofind a location for it. The present building was erected in1754. Governor Shirley and Sir Harry Frankland wereamong the contributors, and it was the place of worship for thearistocracy—the court circle—of the town. The rector, beingof the Kings party, fled to Halifax with many of his parish-ioners at the time of the evacuation, and took with him the ^J^^^^^^^^^^^^^^H Kings ChapelSchool and Tremont Streets 86 RAND McNALLY BOSTON GUIDE. books, plate, and vestmentsof the church. Most of theseproperties have since beenrestored. From the days ofJames Freeman, at the closeof the eighteenth century,the church has beenUnitarian. First Baptist, corner Com-m onwe al t hAve. and Clarendon first build-ing of thissociety waserected in 1679on the border ofthe Mill was atthat time somuch prejudiceagainst the sectthat the meet-inghouse wasclosed and itsdoors nailed up by order of the court. The present structure, with its large,square tower rising 170 feet, is a prominent object in Common-wealth Ave. The groups at the sides (representing the fourChristian eras: Baptism, Communion, Marriage and Death)and the statues on the corners (typifying the Angels of theJudgment) were cut by Italian sculptors from designs byBartholdi. Clarendon St. (Columbus Ave. and Clarendon St.) was made prominent in the denomin-ation through the pastora
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