Building Guide - Emmanuel Church in the city of Boston

Emmanuel Church
15 Newbury St, Boston Massachusetts 02116
Building history, stained glass windows, memorials and furnishings
June 17, 1861 cornerstone laid
First Service Dec. 15 1861
150th anniversary 2011
Mary Chitty, History & Archives
Elizabeth Richardson, History & Archives, Vestry
Michael Scanlon, Building Commission
Lindsey Chapel Michael Shea Reredos project Sam Mygatt
Photographs by Julian Bullitt, Matthew Griffing, Donald Kreider
St Michael Killing the Dragon, Charles Eamer Kempe
Dec 2012 draft
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Emmanuel Church Floor plan Julian Bullitt
Emmanuel Church Building Time Line
Building History & Geology Michael Scanlon
Stained glass of Emmanuel Church
Stained glass windows artists: John Ninian Comper, Charles Connick, Frederic Crowninshield, Harry Eldredge
Goodhue,
Heaton Butler & Bayne, Charles Eamer Kempe, Tiffany, Samuel West, Henry Wynd Young
Emmanuel Church Windows
Chancel and East Wall, Alley to Newbury Street
South Wall Chancel to Chapel
North Wall Chancel to Chapel
History of the Emmanuel’s Land Window
http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/windowHistory.html
Restoration of Emmanuel’s Land window, Frederic Crowninshield http://www.emmanuelboston.org/window.html
Composition & Structure of the Emmanuel’s Land window http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/windowC&S.html
West Wall Newbury Street to Alley
Lindsey Chapel Michael Shea
Lindsey Chapel windows http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/LindseyChapel/LCwindows.html
Lindsey Chapel History http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/LindseyChapel/LChistory.htm
Architects & Artisans http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/LindseyChapel/LCartisans.html
Architecture http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/LindseyChapel/LCarchitecture.html
Altar screen & statues http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/LindseyChapel/LCaltar.html
Reredos Project Sam Mygatt and Building Commission
Architects & Artisans
Alexander Rice Estey, Francis Richmond Allen
Bela Pratt, Augustus St. Gaudens, Henry Vaughan, John Evans, Domingo Mora
Emmanuel Church Furnishings and Memorial Tablets
Chancel and East Wall
South Wall
Narthex
West Wall
North Wall
Vestibule
Parish Hall
Music Room
Building Commission http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/building.html
Building Stewardship
Landscaping Emmanuel
Garden Green Team http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/greenteam.html
Index of People: Memorials and Donors
Index of Saints and other figures in stained glass and statues
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to Virginia Raguin, whose talk on stained glass at the April 2010 Annual Parish Historians’ Society
meeting at Emmanuel inspired to solve some of the mysteries of Emmanuel’s stained glass. Architectural historian
Cynthia Zaitzevsky’s investigations into Boston libraries and archives for information particularly on the Connick
stained glass studio where her grandfather worked has been invaluable.
This guide would not be possible without the wonderful images of photographers Julian Bullitt, Matt Griffing, Don
Kreider and Michael Scanlon. Many thanks to Bill White for sharing a DVD of Don Kreider’s photographs with
us.
More names to come.
Emmanuel Church Floor Plan
Emmanuel Church Boston Building Timeline
July 17, 1861 Emmanuel Church cornerstone laid.
December 15 1861 First Service in Church
April 24, 1862 Emmanuel Church consecrated
1863 Free-standing Chapel added
1864 West transept added
1883 First Parish House built.
April 1898 Last service in old Church before expansion. Services were held at the nearby YMCA until the new
church was
completed. Chancel added and orientation changed from North South to East West
March 5 1899 Expanded church dedicated
1906 Walter Baylies buys 11 and 13 Newbury Street for land for Parish House.
April 21, 1915 Leslie Lindsey and Stewart Mason married.
May 7, 1915 Lusitania sunk, newlyweds Leslie Lindsey and Stewart Mason drown.
1920 William Lindsey buys 27 Newbury St for land for Lindsey Chapel
October 1 1924 Lindsey Chapel consecrated
1926 Parish House third floor added. The old chapel changed into a library with Gothic fireplace. Mezzanine room
provided for the kindergarten and a large workroom on the second floor added for the women of the parish. Off
this room was a new kitchen with modern equipment and a dumbwaiters. The top floor provided offices for parish
workers, and the basement had a club room for choir boys, a choir room for practice and a study for the organist.
1950 11-13 Newbury Street sold to repair unsafe church floor?
1955 Extensive renovations of Church and Parish House completed.
1964 Lindsey Chapel damaged by fire.
Feb 1996 Four Apostles window restoration grant awarded
Nov 17 1999 Safe Haven opens.
April 2000 Vestry discusses handicap accessible bathroom
Nov 12, 2000 Fire Dept alerted to fire by women of Safe Haven.
Dec 7 2000 Services return to Lindsey Chapel after fire.
Dec 24 2000 Services return to Emmanuel Church after fire.
2003 Blessing of renovated Music Room, Sacristy and new bathrooms with procession, incense and prayers.
Sept 2006 New garden fence installed supported by the Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund, City of Boston Small
Changes Fund and designed and negotiated with city boards and the DeAngelis ironworks company by David
Polando
Jan 2008 Pilgrim’s Progress window re-installed and rededicated, with Gertrude Wilmers great-granddaughter of
Frederic Crowninshield and donor to window restoration in attendance.
Aug 2009 Simon Verity begins carving Lindsey Chapel replacement statues
Fall 2010 Simon Verity statues for Lindsey Chapel altar installed.
Stained glass Emmanuel Church Boston Photographs by Julian Bullitt and Matt Griffing
Like the architecture, the glazing program at Emmanuel Church was assembled by gradual accretion and is characterized by overall
diversity and major transformations in style. The church retains several precious examples of pre-opalescent era stained glass by native
designers. … Much of the earliest glass of the Boston area has fallen to the universal trend towards renovation common to major
metropolitan areas. Thus these surviving examples of native glazing are of unusual importance. Lance Kasparian 1990
Sir John Ninian Comper 1864-1960 London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninian_Comper Lindsey Chapel
stained glass, altar and altar screen 1924
Charles Jay Connick 1875-1945 Boston studio from 1913. http://www.cjconnick.org/
Chancel Hawley Memorial windows, 1936; Sarah Field Lawrence Memorial 1916 possibly Cranmore N. Wallace
Memorial after 1918; Connick Studio Howard Lord Ornamental trefoil Christ the Good Shepherd 1947
Frederic Crowninshield 1845-1918 Pilgrim’s Progress window 1898
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Crowninshield
Harry Eldredge Goodhue 1873-1918 Cambridge MA Simeon and Anna 1905, St. Martin and the Beggar 1909
http://www.buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/stained/goodhue/goodhue.html
Heaton Butler & Bayne English firm 1855-1953 Marian Burnham Memorial 1900, in storage, damaged in 2000
fire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaton,_Butler_and_Bayne
Charles Eamer Kempe 1837-1907 London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eamer_Kempe Ward
Memorial Archangel and Heralds 1902, Clerestory windows Old and New Testament 1902, St. Michael and the
Dragon 1901
Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co 1878-1933, New York Incredulity of St. Thomas Meyer Memorial 1890
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_glass
Samuel West died 1891 Boston http://www.channingchurch.org/Frontpage/windows.html or Henry E. Sharp
c1860-1897 New York Four Apostles 1862; Lawrence Memorial 1861 Rand Memorial 1862 Bowditch Memorial
by 1865 Gould Memorials after 1862/63
Henry Wynd Young 1874-1923 New York World War I Memorial c1920 possibly Wallace Memorial after 1918
http://www.buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/stained/young/index.html
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Chancel North to South, left to right, Alley to Newbury St
1. Connick : George Hawley Memorial 1936
North/Left 3 windows: Heralds [one broken in 2000 fire]
2. St. Raphael, St. Michael, Red Winged Seraph, St. Gabriel, St. Uriel, Guardian of all wise Men & Women
3. South/Right: Kempe Anna Saltonstall Merrill Ward Memorial, Mrs. Henry Veazey Ward 1828-1901, gift of
her daughters the Misses Ward Marian DeCourcy Ward, Anna Saltonstall Ward and step daughter Caroline E
Ward. 1907 Vestry minutes also list their brother Robert DeCourcy Ward as one of the donors.
Archangel in center, flanked by heralds
There are also six windows to the left of the Connick herald angels with geometric designs, two of which were broken in the 2000 fire
and had apparently never been photographed. Cynthia Zaitzevsky in Nov 2000 thought there might have been angels, and were the
work of the Connick firm, but a later fax thought we didn’t lose “any windows wholly by Connick, just one that he added some blue
glass to.” Connick's notes on the new windows proposes “to add bits of true and beautiful blue to the backgrounds of the present ‘Herald
Angels” and to the duplicates of them on the left side of the chancel.” An 1899 Globe articles describes 23 windows in the chancel in
various combinations of color, the principal hues being amber, greenish blue, ruby and yellow, all so arranged as to give a soft and mellow
light and lend the appearance of age… These windows are made from original designs by Mr. Francis R. Allen, and are of British
antique glass.
South Wall Newbury St Chancel to Chapel
The clerestory windows along the Arlington Street South Wall by Charles Eamer Kempe, London 1902
Jonathan French (1803-1901) Memorial 1902, gift of daughter Cornelia A. French These Hebrew bible figures
represent from Chancel to Chapel
4. Abraham Isaac Jacob
5. Joseph Miriam Moses
6. Joshua Deborah Samuel
7. Ruth David Solomon
8. Elijah Elisha Micaiah
9. Hosea Amos Micah
10. Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel
11. Zerubbabel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerubbabel Ezra Nehemiah
South Wall Balcony windows
12. unknown artist prior to 1890 ornamental Alpha and Omega, Cross of St. George
13. Samuel West? [Possibly Henry E Sharp] Bishop Alexander Viets Griswold 1766-1843 Memorial
Apostles installed early-mid 1860s, given by the Church Corporation
Four
Feb 1862 Feb vestry minutes When it was first proposed to make the large South Window a Memorial of the late beloved and venerated
Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, the Rt. Rev Alex V. Griswold, it was hoped that the whole cost would be speedily and cheerfully
contributed by those who had known him well and to whom his memory was dear. In this the Committee was disappointed, owing,
probably in a great measure to the financial troubles of the past year. The small amount of $247.94 only was received of which all but
about $56 was from members of the Parish.
Bishop Alexander Viets Griswold, author of the lyrics of Hymn 368 Holy Father Great Creator, Regent Square
An 1899 Globe article notes “The large window on Newbury St has been remade, and now with all crude colorings
eliminated it is most beautiful”. One memorials list mentions a large window removed from West Gallery to the
South Gallery.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Viets_Griswold
14. Howard Lord 1947 Ornamental trefoil Christ the Good Shepherd .Lord was a chorister and student of
Connick.
.
South wall under Balcony windows Chancel to Chapel
15. Harry Eldredge Goodhue Andrew Robeson (1817-1874) & Mary Allen Robeson 1843-1918 Memorial 1905
Simeon and Anna gift of Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer, Alice Robeson
16. Harry Eldredge Goodhue: Eben Caldwell Stanwood Memorial 1856-1906 gift of Miss LR Stanwood 1909
St. Martin of Tours & the Beggar
18.
17.Connick: Sarah Field Lawrence Memorial Mrs. Arthur C Lawrence 1846-1915 Virgin & child 1916 gift of her
daughter Mrs. Frank Albert Higgins
18. Henry Wynd Young, New York possibly (or Connick) after 1918 Colonel Cranmore Nesmith Wallace
Memorial (1844-1918) Adoration of the Magi Gift of his widow Eunice Sprague Wallace. Wallace was a
Vestryman 1896-1918.
Don Kreider
North Wall Alley Chancel to Chapel
Clerestory windows: New Testament John Davis William French Memorial, gift of sister Cornelia A
French 1902
Windows represent from Chancel to Chapel
19. Peter, John, Paul Apostles
20. Centurion of Capernum, Women of Samaria, Nicodemus Prophets
"the three people to whom Christ spoke" Boston Globe Dec 9 1901
21. Matthew, Mark, Luke Evangelists
22. Andrew, Philip, Nathaniel Disciples
23. Melchior, Balthasar, Caspar – Three Magi
24. "Seen for first time:" Window memorial to JDW French uncovered in Emmanuel Church" Boston Globe Dec 9,
1901 tells us what the windows long covered by the organ are: A nativity group of St. John the Baptist, the Archangel
Gabriel and the Virgin Mary. These were covered by the organ screen since 1917, and will not be visible
until the windows are better lit. **
25. Heaton Butler & Bayne Marian Burnham Memorial 1884-1896 gift of her father William
Appleton Burnham, 1900
drowned aged 12.
I need thee every hour, In storage, broken in 2000 fire. Marian Burnham
26. Emmanuel's Land Window
Frederic Crowninshield (1845-1918) taught at the Museum of Fine Arts School of Drawing and Painting when it
was housed in the basement of the Museum on Copley Square. Having studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris
and with Thomas Couture, he learned to make stained-glass through an early collaboration with Donald
MacDonald, a Boston designer.
Piety, flanked by Discretion, Prudence and Charity, shows Pilgrim Emmanuel's Land. Photo by Matthew Griffing
The inscription at the base of the window reads, "Then Pilgrim asked the name of the country. They said it was
Emmanuel's Land. In loving memory of Mrs. Howard Payson Arnold. And for thy peace, thou wast beloved". The
quotation is from Ecclesiasticus 47:16, which describes King Solomon.
Brass plaque 2008 rededication of Pilgrim’s Progress window, Gertrude Wilmers great-granddaughter of Frederic
Crowninshield
The inscription at the base of the window reads, "Then Pilgrim asked the name of the country. They said it was
Emmanuel's Land. In loving memory of Mrs. Howard Payson Arnold. And for thy peace, thou wast beloved". The
quotation is from Ecclesiasticus 47:16, which describes King Solomon.
The Emmanuel community considers this window to be its signature piece. With its theme of showing the way to
Emmanuel's Land, or paradise, it symbolizes the spiritual journey that is central to the church's mission. Building on
the theme of our banner: "Welcome wherever you are on your spiritual journey", it symbolizes guidance for seekers
of truth and light.
The subject of the window is unusual for a church in that it does not depict a religious figure or Biblical scene. The
scene is taken from John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come, a literary work that
has shaped American religious culture since the seventeenth century.
The edifice visible in the midground is the Palace Beautiful, which the artist based on a building in the park of Villa
Torlonia in Frascati (outside Rome). Sections around the palace are dark because their detail is obscured by soot and
buckling of the lead cames. The potted lemons and oleander evoke an Italian paradise. The mountain in the distance
may have been based on one of the Berkshires, where the Crowinshields had a summer house.
The characters depicted represent the four virtues: Discretion, Prudence, Piety and Charity. They are guiding a
Christian (a.k.a. the Pilgrim) on a pilgrimage through their allegorical world. The inscription reads: The Pilgrim
asked the name of the country: They said it was Emmanuel's Land. The restored center panel shows the potted
lemon trees behind the figures with light transmitted through the cleaned glass.
Composition
The window graces the wall opposite Emmanuel's main entrance, above where the altar once stood before the nave
was reoriented in 1898. One of Crowninshield's largest works, the window is comprised of 15 panels of leaded glass
with 17 smaller sections of tracery above, not including the tiny lights, or openings, filled with just a few pieces of
glass. The larger panels are representative of the luxurious, painterly windows typical of the American Opalescent
Style of John LaFarge, Louis Comfort Tiffany, and Crowninshield. Many of the latter's windows reside in local sites,
including Grace Episcopal Church in New Bedford and Memorial Hall at Harvard. The colors of the glass can
rarely be matched today. Where faces, garments and hands are painted and shading is used, the style is very soft and
realistic, much like the portraiture of the time. The paints used often were not fired into the glass as is common in
standard windows, so special care must be taken in their cleaning and restoration. Our window exhibits a lot of
"ripple" and spotted "cat's paw" glass. Another feature common to opalescent windows is its layering, which gives
strong, dimensional shading and hazy effects.
Restoration Process
The excess space in the lead cames is filled with putty, which dries, stiffens, and falls out over time and causes the
panels to buckle. Also, the lead may stretch due to temperature changes and wind pressures, which move the
window slightly. In the case of our window, bowing was most noticeable in the center, in the panels with the most
lead. The buckling in and out resulted in the glass literally jutting out of the cames, creating the bright holes visible
as specks of light. While this process of deterioration takes a long time, experts cannot predict when a window will
fail. Several years ago, in order to restrain the glass, piano wire was installed across the face of the two worst panels.
In 2005, the window was removed by Serpentino Studios in order to prevent a catastrophe.
By 2008, thanks to major gifts from Gertrude Wilmers and the Mygatt family, we raised about $150,000 to pay for
the restoration. On January 13, 2008, our retiring priest-in-charge, the Rev. Maureen Kemeza, officiated at the rededication of the resplendent window. On January 13, 2008, the main window of our historic church was rededicated. Entitled "Emmanuel's Land", but often referred to as the "Pilgrim's Progress Window", it was created by
Frederic Crowninshield. His great-granddaughter, Gertrude Wilmers, whose generosity sparked our successful
fundraising effort, addressed the parish.
Crowninshield designed our window in 1899 in memory of his mother, Mrs. Howard Payson Arnold, who had died
in 1897. Born Caroline Marie Welch in 1820, she had married his father, Edward A. Crowninshield, in 1840. He had
died in 1859 at age 41. Frederic's two brothers subsequently died in their twenties.
Caroline Marie Welch aged 18
References
David Carlson, "Emmanuel's Land off the Bow", Voices, June 2005.
Gertrude Wilmers, "An American Artist in Italy: Frederic Crowninshield and His "Seconda Patria", pp. 37-52, in
Spellbound by Rome: The Anglo-American Community in Rome (1890-1914), ed. Peter Rockwell. Rome: Palombi Editori,
2005.
27. Kempe Frederick Warren Memorial St. Michael killing the dragon 1901, gift of Mrs. Frederick Warren
28. Tiffany Glass & Decorating Co, George Augustus Meyer Memorial 1824-1889 Incredulity of St.
Thomas 1890
Meyer was the father of George von Lenkerge Meyer, the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Roundel over window
West Windows/Organ loft
29. Upper panels Frederick A Gould Christ & two children [Bowditch symbols] Charles W Gould Angel and
child
Lower windows Eliza Rand: Angel Inscription: Non est mortua sed dormit Christ the Good Shepherd
Amos Lawrence? Christ and Jairus’ daughter Good Samaritan Amos Lawrence
Bottom two windows left Eliza Rand with her name on the left and death date May 22 1852 on the left middle
window. Eliza was the daughter of, and the window an 1862 gift of Edward Sprague Rand 1834-1897. Rand was
chair of the Building Committee and Senior Warden. 1862 Vestry minutes described the location as the
Chancel/North Wall, later on the East wall, prior to the 1898/99 church expansion.
The Right bottom window is in memory of Amos Lawrence and the one to the left of that reads In memory of
and may be also connected with Amos Lawrence. An 1894 Globe article says the window was erected when the
church was built in 1861. Gift of founding member William R. Lawrence?
Amos Lawrence, 1786-1852 father of Emmanuel Church founder William R. Lawrence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Lawrence
The left upper window is in memory of Frederick Augustus Gould, died Feb 4 1863, The right upper window is
in memory of Charles Walter Gould who died March 10 1862. Do we know anything about the top most glass?
Upper panels Nathaniel Bowditch [Note initials N and B] flanked by Frederick A & Charles W Gould memorials
Lieutenant Nathaniel I Bowditch Memorial. 1839- 1863, gift of William R Lawrence.
The window was designed by his father abolitionist and public health pioneer Henry Ingersoll Bowditch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ingersoll_Bowditch who wrote “In selecting the emblems for the window … I desired, that, while
suggesting a religious thought in harmony with the place, they should not only illustrate my son’s brief civil and military career, but
likewise ally him with the past … In the upper part of the window, and crowning the whole, appear the sacred emblems of the book and
the cross, and between them both lies the sword … Below, in six different compartments, are six other emblems,. The upper ones are
simply cavalry insignia, -- the sabre, helmet, cuirass, banner, spurs, gauntlets, haversack, &c…... The central couple ally him to the
past. That on the left is the Jessamine, especially hallowed to us by the fact, that the grandfather of the young soldier, struck with its
beauty and its brilliant white flower, told one of his children to place it in her mother’s Bible, and to let it remain ever to his family as the
emblem of truth and of honor. “Let it be the Bowditch arms.” At the right is the ancient heraldic coat of arms, granted centuries ago, in
old Norman times, to one of the name, for his bravery and his skill in archery. Its crest is a bunch of golden arrow, barbed and feathered
in silver; while on the shield are seen three bows. … The two lower emblems introduce us to the life of the youthful soldier before entering
the war… The compartment on the left contains representations of diagrams, inscribed on the banner of the Zoological Club of the
Lawrence Scientific School [Harvard], and are sufficiently significant of the fact of his having pursued a course of specific zoological
studies … as a preparation for entrance into this future profession ; viz., of medicine. … They are intended to represent the modes of
development of the four great classes of the animal kingdom. Vertebrates, Mollusks Articulates (insects, crustacia, &c.) Radiata
(starfishes, sea-urchins, &c.) The figures are supposed to represent sections through the animal, transverse to the cavity. In the right
compartment are the usual insignia of medicine, -- the two snakes twisting around the winged rod. The youth had just entered upon the
study of this profession, when summoned by “the higher law: to fight for his country.
This description comes from a privately printed 1865 Memorial book, via Google Books
http://books.google.com/books?id=LUlIAAAAYAAJ&dq=nathaniel+bowditch+memorial+emmanuel&source=gbs_navlinks_s
An 1894 Boston Globe article describes these windows as being four windows on the right wall as one enters the
church [through what are now the Hawley doors would be on the East wall, removed when the Chancel was built.
The first window is the Bowditch memorial, then Amos Lawrence, then Eliza Rand and finally the CW and FA
Gould windows.
An 1899 Globe articles reports “The collection of memorial windows in the original church has been grouped with
excellent effect into one large window in the west.”
Lindsey Chapel: John Ninian Comper 1924
http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/LindseyChapel/LCwindows.html Michael Shea
Vestibule: 30. Henry Wynd Young St. Michael & St. Gabriel World War I Memorial, c1920, erected by the
Parish.
Men who gave their lives in the Great War:,
of a number of these, as students.
Harvard archives have photos
Oric Bates, Ezra Charles Fitch Jr., Edward Hooper Gardiner,
Prescott Wilder Gould, Harold Brittan Klingman, Samuel Pierce Mandell, Davidge Warfield Patterson
Edward Hale Perry, Nathan Stone Simpkins Jr.,
Kenneth Weeks, Lawrence Barrett Williams, Richmond Young.
A 1908 photograph shows 4 stained glass windows under the organ loft, where there are now plaques. (The plaques
were then on the North Wall, under the Pilgrim’s Progress window.)
We’d love to have more photographs of people memorialized and donors.
Parish Hall Roundels in windows, 1948 gift of Mrs. Sheldon E. Wardwell
Emmanuel Church Furnishings and Memorials
Artists: Architects & Artisans
Alexander Rice Estey 1826-1881
Architect original church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rice_Esty
Framingham architect known for his Gothic Revival Churches trained with Richard Bond and Gridley James Fox
Bryant. Other Estey buildings include Church of our Saviour Brookline, also founded by Lawrences and the Old
Cambridge Baptist Church.
Francis Richmond Allen 1844-1931 Architect 1898-1899 renovation, Lindsey Chapel, Baptistery in memory of
Ruth Allen (1887-1888) Allen studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris,
and later received an LL.D. from Amherst and an honorary M.A. from Williams. His firm of Allen & Collins designed eight buildings at Williams College, twelve at Vassar, Union Theological Seminary's group in New York, and
that of Andover Theological Seminary in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a member of the American Institute of
Architects, Boston Society of Colonial Wars, and Society of Mayflower Descendants.
http://eng.archinform.net/arch/73356.htm
We’d love to find a photograph of Francis Allen.
Bela Lyon Pratt 1867-1917 bust, carved stone tablets, 1904 Frederic Dan Huntington, Rector 1860-1869
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Pratt Sculptor Edward Everett Hale, Boston Public Garden; Science, Boston
Public Library
Augustus St. Gaudens bronze bas relief 1883 Alexander Hamilton Vinton (1807-1881) Rector 18691877 1848-1907 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Saint-Gaudens Sculptor Shaw Memorial Boston Common;
Phillips Brooks, assisted John LaFarge murals Trinity Church
Henry Vaughan 1845-1917 Pulpit 1898, Alexander Hamilton Rice Memorial 1818-1895 Mayor Boston,
Governor, Congressman Font 1898 Cover of Oak in Memory of Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer (1847-1871)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Vaughan_(architect) worked on National Cathedral, Washington DC,
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, St Paul’s School, Concord NH, Church of the Redeemer, Chestnut Hill MA.
Simon Verity 1945- Altar statues Lindsey Chapel 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Verity sculptor and
stone carver
John Evans Rotch Memorial Reredos and Communion table 1899, Two carved stone reliefs 77 Huntington
Avenue, Boston Modeler and carved, worked with HH Richardson on Trinity Church and Seaver Hall and with
McKim Mead & White on the Boston Public Library. Domingo Mora 1840-1911
http://www.baronart.com/domingo_mora1.htm Brought to the US by St. Gaudens in 1878.
In addition to the stained glass window memorials Emmanuel Church Boston has a variety of other reminders of
parishioners past including: Eagle lectern 1899. gift of Howard Payson Arnold, in memory of his wife Caroline
Marie (Welch Crowninshield) Arnold. The lectern was copied from one in the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr,
Parish of Westminster, London
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes coffee urn, gift of his grandson Edward Jackson Holmes.
Narthex in memory of Andrew Robeson Sargent, son of Charles Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum
and Mary Robeson Sargent.
Vestibule in memory of Rector Elwood Worcester, founder of the Emmanuel movement,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Movement and Worcester’s associate Courtenay Baylor.
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Chancel and East Wall North to South, left to right, Alley to Newbury St
We are still photographing memorials, and hope to locate more images of people memorialized and
donors
A Ark, Boston Jewish Spirit, 2007 New Year 5768 Ark, Vestments and Silver adornments contributed by Boston
Jewish Spirit members.
The Holy Ark, known in Hebrew as the Aron Kodesh,is the major centerpiece of every synagogue. It is traditionally
built into the eastern wall of the Sanctuary, and is a cabinet that holds the congregation's Torah Scrolls - the Five
Books of Moses, handwritten in parchment. The Ark of Boston Jewish Spirit is a portable cabinet that was selected
and adapted to compliment the architecture and woodwork of the Emmanuel Sanctuary and Lindsey Chapel, where
BJS holds its Services. During worship, when the actual Scrolls are placed within the Ark, the Ner Tamid , "Eternal
Light," is hung from a bracket over the Ark and lit.
The symbolism on the Ark includes three elements that have been traditionally been used in the design of
synagogue architecture - the Star of David, the tablets of the Ten Commandments flanked by the "Lions of Judah",
and the two columns on either side of the doors, that recall the columns at the gates of the ancient Biblical Temple
in Jerusalem.
BJS owns two Torah Scrolls, which are stored in the Church Sacristy when not in use. One dates from 1850 and
was sent from Germany to New Orleans following the Civil War. It was presented to Boston Jewish Spirit by
Temple Sinai of New Orleans. Our second Torah dates from about 1900, and comes from Russia. It was originally
used by an Orthodox synagogue in Bronx, N,Y, and was given to BJS in 2010.
B. Sacristy door 1897-1898 in memory Richard Manning Hodges MD 1827-1896 given by his widow, Designed
by Francis R Allen.
Hymn boards in memory of Andrew Robeson Sargent, son of Charles and Mary Allen Robeson Sargent. Four –
others on front of Newbury St. Gallery and to left of Pilgrim’s Progress window. **
C. Oak angels 1903 two over North side of Choir stalls, gift of Howard Payson Arnold, design by Domingo Mora.
[image]
D. Rector's Stall 1899 Henry Parker Quincy 1838-1899 gift Mary Adams Quincy, granddaughter of John Quincy
Adams
Prayer desk 1928 gift of Helen Sharp, in memory of Caroline Elizabeth Ward 1857-1926 **
Prayer desk for Bishop's chair 1915, gift of Mrs Hugh Ogden, Martha Lisbeth Davis **
One prayer desk is in front of the Rector’s stall. The other is in the back of the church.
E. Eagle lectern.1899 gift of Howard Payson Arnold, in memory of his wife Caroline Marie (Welch
Crowninshield) Arnold. The Gothic lectern was copied from one in the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr, Parish of
Westminster, London, made in London from a design by Carpeaux. Brass with a 22 inch high marble base.. Four
reclining lions guard each of four points on a circular base, midway a girdle of 16 agates.
Eagle lectern, Rector’s Stall
Plaque Choir in memory Albert Snow Emmanuel Organist 1918-1938 [damaged in 2000 fire]
Plaque Choir 1930 in memory Lynnwood Farnam Emmanuel Organist 1912-1918
Bishop’s chair 1898 gift
F. Rotch Memorial Reredos and Communion table 1899 gift of Mrs. Winthrop Sargent in memory of her
parents Benjamin Smith Rotch and Annie Bigelow Rotch and of their children Edith Rotch (1847-1897) and
Arthur Rotch (1850-1894). Caen stone Emmanuel News Feb 2000 article on Benjamin Smith Rotch.
Annie Bigelow Lawrence Rotch 1820-1893
Rotch Memorial Reredos and Communion table
Da Vinci’s Last supper, St. Peter and St. Martha on left, St. Mary and St. John on right. Design by Francis R Allen,
executed by John Evans, Domingo Mora sculptor. Another source identifies the statue on the left as Mary of
Bethany and the Virgin Mary on the right.
Large brass cross on altar 1890-1891 in memory of Knyvet Winthrop Sears 1832-1891 and daughter Mary
Peabody Shaw 1859-1890 wife of Francis Shaw , gift of Mrs. Knyvet W Sears and Miss Clara Endicott Sears,
founder of Fruitlands Museum, Harvard MA. **
Mary Sears, Mrs. Francis Shaw
Clara Endicott Sears http://www.fruitlands.org/ces
Communion service Two large candlesticks 1933 given by Charlotte Wright Hubbard Young, Mrs. B
Loring Young in memory of her mother Martha Parsons Stackpole, Mrs. Joseph Lewis Stackpole and
Margaret Young Emmons, Mrs. Wm Bacon Young **
Marble communion rail 1903, “given by those who desire to share in the new church and can give but small sums
… in memory of all who have been communicants in this parish from its foundation.”
G. Credence table 1898 [half circle shelf] Thomas Lambard Robinson 1875-1893 in memory of
Don Kreider
Missal stand on credence table, gift of pupils from St. Augustine's School, Raleigh NC, 1899
Emmanuel Church Yearbooks from the late 19th and early 20th century record gifts to St. Augustine's, an outgrowth of the General
Convention of 1865 which established a Freedman's Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Now historically black
Episcopalian St. Augustine’s College.
Litany desk and Table for Alms basin 1943, in memory of Edward Osgood Seccomb **
Plaque 1941 Choir right Robert Oswood Gott (1924-1941) Chorister and acolyte Solo organ Cors anglais 1956
What happened to this organ?
H. Pulpit by Henry Vaughan 1898, Alexander Hamilton Rice Memorial 1818-1895 Mayor Boston, Governor,
Congressman Stone base has carved coats of arms of the City of Boston, Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the
United States of America. Carved figures [many stolen] illustrated the life of St. Paul.
Alexander Hamilton Rice
I. Font 1898 Cover of Oak in Memory of Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer (1847-1871)
Gift of Alice Robeson Thayer, Mrs. Stephen van Rensselaer Thayer? Designed by Henry Vaughan, Octagonal pink
Knoxville marble, Carved and crocketed oak canopy of 13th century design, suspended with counter balancing
weight.
Baptismal font, cover and setting, designed by Francis R Allen.
Baptistery in memory of Ruth Allen (1887-1888) possibly daughter of architect Francis Richmond Allen and his
wife Elizabeth Bradlee Wood Allen.
Pavement candelabra (wrought iron) gift of Mr. and Mrs. EJ Holmes.
Baptismal font and baptistery Don Kreider
Thayer expedition 1865/66
J. Memorial Door and statue in niche, in memory of Sarah Sprague Upham 1829-1900 Mrs. George Phineas
Upham, gift of her daughter Charlotte, Mrs. Walter C Baylies 1864-1939 Architect Francis R Allen, executed by
Messrs Evans & Co.
South Wall Newbury St Chancel to Chapel
Stone panel, 1919 Sargent, Mary Robeson 1853-1903 wife of Charles Sprague Sargent, mother of Mrs. Guy
Lowell and Andrew Robeson Sargent
K. Bust, carved stone, 1904 Frederic Dan Huntington, Rector 1860-1869 gift Cornelia A. French, artist Bela Pratt
Frederic Dan Huntington bust
Stone canopy & panel, Alice Robeson Thayer 1849-1919, Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer
Tablet 1916-1918 in memory of Aimee Rotch Sargent (1852-1918) and Winthrop Sargent (1840-1916)
L. Memorial door , 1936 in memory of George Hawley (died 1934) executed by Wm F Ross Co under direction
of Allen, Collins and Willis, gift of Mrs. George Hawley. Hand carved oak, overlaid with gold, three angels in
silhouette each side.
Don Kreider
Plaque 1938, Leighton Parks (1852-1938) Rector 1878-1904 gift of many parishioners
Tablet, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Redington Mudge 1839-1863 Died at Gettysburg, son of Enoch Redington
Mudge, Voices March 2002 article In 1894 this tablet was described as being on the right/least wall of the church
[where chancel is now.]
Plaque Cranmore Nesmith Wallace (1844-1918) Vestryman 1896-1916
See also his Memorial stained glass window
South wall opposite narthex
Plaque, Enoch Reddington Mudge 1812-1881 vestryman
Plaque 1941 Elwood Worcester (1862-1940) Rector 1904-1929 “Learned preacher, physician of souls”
M. Narthex Carved entrance door and Narthex is in memory of Andrew Robeson Sargent. 1948
Plaque Andrew Robeson Sargent 1877- 1918 gift of his sisters Mrs. Guy Lowell (Henrietta Sargent Lowell), Mrs.
Nathaniel B Potter (Molly Sargent Potter) and Miss Alice Sargent, son of Charles Sargent (Director of the Arnold
Arboretum) and Mary Allen Robeson Sargent.
Charles & Mary Robeson Sargent, Mary/Molly, Charles and Robeson, Alice and Henrietta [Mrs Guy Lowell] on
divan.
West Wall in front of pews, nearest Newbury St
Brass Tablet, 1915 Kenneth Weeks 1889-1915 WWI Weeks moved to France in 1910 and enlisted in the French
Foreign Legion in 1914. Son of Andrew Gray & Alice Weeks c1863 1940. [image]
can we get better lit image?
West Wall under organ loft Newbury St to Alley South to North
Bronze tablet 1938 in memory of Hugh Walker Ogden 1871-1938 by Gorham Ogden was a World War I
Colonel, and presided over hearings on the Boston 1919 molasses disaster
Brass tablet 1900 in memory of Jonathan French, also memorialized with Kempe clerestory windows.
Stone carved tablet, 1914 The organ in the West Gallery in memory of Silas Reed Anthony (1863-1914) Parish
Clark 1887-1898 Vestryman 1898-1906 Junior Warden 1906-1914. Organ was gift of his widow Mrs. Randolph
Frothingham.
Organ Loft and Lindsey Chapel Still working on draft of the history of organs at Emmanuel.
Plaque Richard Warren Sears 1914- 1971, husband of Larissa Sears
Marble tablet 1874 Benjamin Tyler Reed 1801-1874 Senior Warden for ten years and a founder of the Episcopal
Theological School. Erected by his wife and his son General John Reed of Cotuit.
In 1894 this tablet was described as being on the right/least wall of the church [where chancel is now.] By 1908 it was under the
Pilgrim’s Progress window on the North Wall.
Pair of standing 1743 Spanish candelabra 1955 in memory of Emma Gildersleeve Lane 1872-1954 Mrs.
Gardiner Martin Lane 1955 gift of her daughter Katharine Lane Weems, Mrs. Carrington Weems 1899-1989
sculptor of the MFA School and Bio Labs, Harvard University rhinoceri. . **
Katharine Lane Weems http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Lane_Weems
Wood font in the rear of the Church.
North Wall Alley Chancel to Chapel
O. Statue Albert Rufus Whittier Jr. 1840-1922, given by his wife Louise Thompson Whittier, Saint with halo and
sword, possibly St. Paul?
Two carved stone reliefs, flanking Pilgrim’s Progress window 1904 Design Mr. Allen, modeled by Domingo
Mora, work by John Evans, on either side of Emmanuel's Land window left Nativity, right Ascension [image]
Hymn Board, memorial Andrew Robeson Sargent
P. Tablet and Canopied stone screen 1904 Andrew Gray Weeks 1825-1904 Apothecary, Vestry and Warden of
Emmanuel for 17 years Francis R Allen designed
Brass plaque 2008 rededication of Pilgrim’s Progress window, Gertrude Wilmers great-granddaughter of Frederic
Crowninshield Picture with window
Pillars in center of Church
Five Stone columns 1917 in memory of Anthony, Silas Reed 1863-1914 Chas Collins Architect **
Stone Angels 1918 gift of four members of the Parish Four angels represent the Annunciation, the Agony, the
Resurrection and the Ascension. May 13 1899 Churchman
Which one is this? Do we have photos of the other three?
Q St Gaudens bronze bas relief 1883 Alexander Hamilton Vinton (1807-1881) Rector 1869-1877
Inscription composed by Phillips Brooks. “An earnest Christian, a learned theologian, a wise legislator; a true
friend;’ a faithful pastor; an illustrious preacher; a patriotic citizen; a good man”.
Pew Number 75 Henry Howard Fay extended so that all seven family members could sit together.
Moulton Sacristy in memory of Ruth Humphrey Moulton (1892-1965) given by family and friends in gratitude for
her life and ministry
N.“Rood Screen” around the outside of the Moulton Sacristy was constructed for and used in the Kenneth Branagh
film The Proposition, filmed at Emmanuel in the mid 1990’s. **
Lindsey Chapel
Lindsey Chapel History http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/LindseyChapel/LChistory.htm
Architects & Artisans http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/LindseyChapel/LCartisans.html
Architecture http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/LindseyChapel/LCarchitecture.html
Altar screen & statues http://www.emmanuel-boston.org/LindseyChapel/LCaltar.html
Research and brochure by Michael Shea
Reredos Project Bequests in memory of Sam Mygatt have initiated restoration of the chapel's reredos. Nancy
Peabody's research led to the British sculptor Simon Verity, who created three alabaster statues to replace those
stolen years ago. He worked from the original drawings of Ninian Comper, which were found in the Victoria and
Albert Museum by Sam's friend Susie Cleland. The scope of the project included pointing the rear wall of the chapel
and installing a security system in addition to replacing the statues and repairing the paint behind them.
Entrance and Vestibule
Carved stone 1911 James Haynes 1836-1900, sexton and undertaker, Erected by members of the congregation
Entrance hall settle gift of Mr. Edward Jackson Holmes and Mary Stacy Mrs. EJ Holmes
grandson of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes and nephew of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes also gave
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809-1894 silver coffee urn and in 1938 Parish House steps and railings
Two lanterns Courtenay Baylor 1870-1947 gifts of friends 1942 Winter 2007 Voices newsletter article has
photograph and article on the restoration. Exterior and interior lanterns. ** get photograph
Parish House Door, 1941 Elwood Worcester memorial?
Parish Hall
Piano 1934, belonged to Guy Lowell 1870-1927
This seems to be the Steinway in the Parish Hall.
Music Room Brass plaque Elizabeth Waters, Dorcas Society **
Solid oak chest ** 1888 in memory of Margarita Alden Parks, wife of Rector Leighton Parks, used for storing altar
cloths, gift of the women of the church. Mentioned 1894 Globe article, then in small gallery to the left of the
chancel. Now outside Music Room
Now in storage What would it take to re-install?
Carved stone tablet in memory of Captain Randolph Marshall Clark 1835-1873 was under west gallery, now in
basement] Husband of Mary Vinton Clark, daughter of second rector Dr. Alexander Vinton. In 1894 this tablet was
described as being on the right/least wall of the church [where chancel is now.]
Brass tablet 1900 John Davis Williams French 1841- 1900 was under west gallery, now in closet across from
Moulton sacristy, also memorialized with Kempe clerestory stained glass windows.
Garden add to Landscaping Emmanuel page Fence 2006 Designed and negotiated with city boards and the
DeAngelis ironworks company by David Polando, supported by the Edward Ingersoll Browne Fund, City of
Boston Small Changes Fund.
Emmanuel Mysteries
Can you help us solve any of these mysteries? Do you have images or information about people, particularly ones
with little or no information attached? We’d love to hear from you. [email protected]
We are still looking for the original plans of the church, and Lindsey Chapel.
Mystery saint: Albert Whittier statue on North Wall near chancel Saint with halo and sword possibly St. Paul.
Who are these Stained glass windows by?
Four Apostles window, Lawrence, Rand, Bowditch Memorials: Samuel West or Henry Sharp?
Cranmore Wallace Memorial possibly Connick or Henry Wynd Young
unknown artist ornamental Alpha and Omega prior to 1890
Where are these windows? At one point they were under the west organ loft gallery
Dr. William Botrowe Gibson memorial John Nelson Borland donor 1866
Montgomery Harrison Ritchie, Mary Sheldon Ritchie Memorial Harrison Ritchie donor
Henry Timmins memorial 1865
Where are these Memorials? Appear in Memorials List.
Stone panel Andrew Robeson
Tablet John Hogg 1829-1917 Junior Warden 1878 Senior Warden 1882-1907 Honorary Warden until his death
1917
Index of donors and memorials
Allen, Ruth baptistery in memory of, designed by Francis Richmond Allen 1898/99
Anthony, Silas Reed stone carved tablet in memory of 1914, five stone columns in center of church 1917
Arnold Howard Payson donor Crowninshield window; also two chancel oak angels 1903, eagle lectern 1899, carved
stone reliefs on either side of Pilgrim’s Progress window 1904
Arnold Caroline Marie Welch Crowninshield memorial Crowninshield window
Baylor, Courtenay two lanterns in memory of, gift of friends 1942 , Vestibule renovation 2007
Bowditch Nathaniel memorial William R. Lawrence donor West? window c1865
Burnham Marian memorial William Appleton Burnham donor Heaton Butler & Bayne window 1900
Clark, Randolph Marshall carved stone tablet in memory of, in storage in basement died 1873
Farnam Lynnwood organist plaque in memory of died 1918
French Cornelia A. donor of Kempe windows 1902, Huntington bust 1904.
French John Davis William memorial Cornelia A French donor Kempe windows Brass tablet 1900 in storage
French, Jonathan memorial Cornelia A French donor Kempe windows; brass tablet in memory of 1900
Gott, Robert Oswood plaque and organ 1941
Gould Frederic Augustus died 1863 and Gould Charles Walter died 1862 West? windows
Griswold Bishop Alexander Viets memorial Four Apostles Church Corporation and parishioners donors West?
window 1862
Hawley George memorial Mrs. George Hawley donor Connick windows , Memorial door 1936
Haynes, James stone tablet in memory of, gift of many parishioners 1911
Higgins Mrs. Frank donor Sarah Field Lawrence memorial Connick window 1916
Hodges, Richard Manning, Door given by Mrs. Hodges 1897-98
Holmes, Mrs. And Mrs. Edward Jackson pavement candelabra, entrance hall settle, Parish House steps and railings,
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes coffee urn
Huntington Frederic Dan bust by Bela Pratt and stone tablets gift of Cornelia A. French 1904
Lane, Emma Gildersleeve, Mrs. Gardiner Lane Standing Spanish candelabra in memory of, gift of her daughter
Katharine Lane Weems 1955
Lawrence Amos memorial William R Lawrence donor West? window 1861
Lawrence William R donor Nathaniel Bowditch c 1865 and Amos Lawrence windows West? windows 1861
Lawrence Sarah Field Mrs. Arthur C memorial Mrs Frank Higgins donor Connick window 1916
Lindsey Leslie Mason memorial Lindsey Chapel Comper windows 1924
Lindsey, William and Anne Hawthorne: donor Lindsey Chapel Comper windows 1924
Lord Howard donor Connick window 1947
Lowell, Guy piano gift of Mrs. Guy Lowell? 1934
Mason Stuart Southam Lindsey memorial Chapel William & Anne Lindsey donors Comper windows 1924
Meyer George Augustus memorial Tiffany window 1890
Moulton, Ruth Humphrey sacristy
Mudge, Charles Redington LT. Col tablet gift of his father Enoch Redington Mudge died 1863
Mudge, Enoch Redington plaque died 1881
Ogden, Hugh Walker bronze tablet 1938
Ogden, Mrs. Hugh Martha Lisbeth Davis prayer desk donor 1915
Parks, Leighton Rector, memorial plaque, gift of man y parishioners 1938
Quincy, Henry Parker rector’s stall given by his wife Mary Adams Quincy 1899
Rand Eliza memorial Edward Sprague Rand donor West? windows 1862
Reed, Benjamin Tyler marble tablet gift of his wife and son General John Reed of Cotuit. died 1874
Rice, Alexander Hamilton pulpit by Henry Vaughan 1898
Robeson Andrew & Mary Allen memorial Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer (Alice Robeson) donor Goodhue
windows 1905
Robinson, Thomas Lambard credence table in memory of 1898/99
Rotch Benjamin Smith and Annie Bigelow Rotch and their children Edith Rotch and Arthur Rotch Reredos given
by Mrs. Winthrop Sargent. 1899
Saint Augustine’s School Raleigh NC pupils missal stand gift of 1899
Sargent, Andrew Robeson Narthex and hymn boards memorial, gift of his sisters Mrs. Guy Lowell, Mrs. Nathaniel
B Potter, Miss Alice Sargent died 1918 carved entrance door dedicated 1948
Sargent, Mary Robeson stone panel in memory of died 1903
Sargent Mrs. Winthrop donor of Reredos in memory of Benjamin Smith & Annie Bigelow Rotch, Edith and Arthur
Rotch
Stone panel in memory of Aimee and Winthrop Sargent 1916-1918
Sears, Knyvet Winthrop and Mary Peabody Sears in memory of Altar cross given by Mrs. Knyvet Sears and Miss
Clara Endicott Sears. 1890-91
Sears, Richard Warren plaque in memory of died 1971
Seccomb, Edward Osgood Litany desk and table for alms in memory of 1943.
Sharp, Helen donor prayer desk in memory of Caroline Elizabeth Ward 1928
Snow, Albert organist plaque in memory of died 1938
Stackpole, Martha Parsons, Mrs. Joseph Lewis Stackpole Communion Service Candlesticks in memory of, given by
her daughter Charlotte Wright Hubbard Young, Mrs. B Loring Young 1933
Stanwood Eben Caldwell memorial Miss LR Stanwood donor Goodhue window 1909
Thayer, Mrs. Stephen Van Rensselaer (Alice Robeson) donor Robeson window Goodhue window 1905, font in
memory of her husband Stephen Van Rensselaer Thayer 1898, stone canopy in memory of died 1919
Thorndike, Mrs. Harry Hill Bible 1953
Unknown artists gallery trefoil prior to 1890,
Upham, Sarah Sprague Memorial door and statue gift of her daughter Charlotte, Mrs. Walter Baylies died 1900
Vinton, Alexander Hamilton bas relief St. Gaudens, gift of parishioners? 1904
Wallace Cranmore Nesmith memorial wife Eunice Sprague Wallace donor Young possibly Connick, plaque c1919
Ward Anna Saltonstall Merrill [Mrs. Henry Veazey Ward] memorial Marian DeCourcey Ward, Anna Saltonstall
Ward & Caroline E Ward donors Kempe windows 1902
Ward, Caroline Elizabeth prayer desk in memory of given by Helen Sharp 1928
Wardwell Mrs. Sheldon Parish Hall roundels in bay window
Warren Frederick memorial Mrs. Frederick Warren donor Kempe window 1902
Weeks, Andrew Gray tablet and canopied stone screen 1904
Weeks, Kenneth Brass tablet gift of Alice Weeks? 1915
Weems, Katharine Lane, donor of memorial to her mother Emma Gildersleeve Lane , Mrs. Gardiner Lane
Standing Spanish candelabra, 1955
Whittier, Albert Rufus Jr. statue given by his wife Louise Thompson Whittier died 1922
Worcester, Elwood plaque and Parish House Door/narthex in memory of 1941
World War 1914-1918 Young window c1920 memorializes Oric Bates, Ezra Charles Fitch Jr., Edward Hooper
Gardiner, Prescott Wilder Gould, Harold Brittan Klingman, Samuel Pierce Mandell, Davidge Warfield Patterson,
Edward Hale Perry, Nathan Stone Simpkins Jr., Kenneth Weeks, Lawrence Barrett Williams, Richmond Young
Young, Charlotte Wright Hubbard Mrs. B Loring Young donor Stackpole, Martha Parsons, Mrs. Joseph Lewis
Stackpole Communion Service Candlesticks in memory of her mother 1933
Index of saints & other people in stained glass and statues
St. Andrew Kempe clerestory New Testament
Angel & child West? Walter Gould
Anna & Simeone Goodhue
Apostles Four West? See also Matthew, Mark , Luke John
St. Anne Comper Lindsey Chapel altar window and large altar statue on left teaching her daughter the Virgin
Mary to read.
Bride of the Apocalypse Comper Lindsey Chapel
St. Cecelia [Leslie Lindsey Mason] Comper Lindsey Chapel
Centurion of Capernaum Kempe clerestory New Testament
St. Elizabeth Comper Lindsey Chapel altar window Visitation of the Virgin and large Lindsey Chapel altar statue
on right with her son John the Baptist.
St. Elizabeth of Hungary statue Lindsey Chapel narthex
St. Gabriel by Connick in the Chancel, part of the George Hawley memorial, by Young in the narthex, part of the
World War I memorial, by Comper in
the Annunciation of the Virgin in Lindsey Chapel and a Kempe clerestory window not now visible.
St. Genevieve carved stone pendants in Lindsey Chapel exterior
St. George cross of unknown artist gallery
Heavenly Woman from Revelations Comper Lindsey Chapel
Herald with banner reading "Nomen Tuum..."; Herald with banner reading "Et Hymnum" Connick
Heralds (duo): Connick
Heralds (trio): Kempe
Hosea: Lindsey Chapel Altar center figure above stone tracery
Jesus? How many images of? Some by Comper in Lindsey Chapel and more in the altar frieze, Christ the Good
Shepherd in the South wall gallery by
Howard Lord, a student in the Connick studio. Connick gave this window. At least three Christ images in
the West window including Frederick
Gould, Christ the Good Shepherd Eliza Rand and Christ and Jairus’ daughter Amos Lawrence
John, the Apostle: carved oak tympanum surmounting Lindsey Chapel doors , Pieta Lindsey Chapel altar frieze.
See also Apostles
John the Baptist: Kempe clerestory window, not now visible, large Lindsey Chapel altar statue on right with his
mother St. Elizabeth
Luke: See Apostles
Magi: Three sets of the three Magi: three of the New Testament Kempe clerestory windows: Melchior, Balthasar
and Caspar, another by Comper in Lindsey Chapel and the Wallace memorial Adoration of the Magi, by Young
or possibly by Connick
Mark: See also Apostles
St. Martin and the beggar-- by Comper in the Lindsey Chapel depicting Stuart Southam Mason and by
Goodhue a memorial to Eben Caldwell Stanwood.
Mary Virgin There are several by Comper including the Coronation of the Virgin and a statue in the gable
overlooking Newbury St and the Pieta in the altar frieze in Lindsey Chapel, the Sarah Lawrence Field memorial by
Connick and a Kempe clerestory window, formerly covered by the organ screen and not visible now until better lit.
Mary Magdalene : Lindsey Chapel altar frieze Pieta
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John are in the Kempe clerestory windows in the North wall, in the Four Apostles
window over the gallery in the South Wall, possibly by Samuel West See also Apostles
St. Michaels by Kempe St. Michael killing the dragon, Frederick Warren memorial, by Connick in the chancel,
part of the Hawley memorial, and by Young in the narthex, part of the World War I memorial
St. Nathaniel Kempe clerestory New Testament
Nicodemus Kempe clerestory New Testament
St. Paul Kempe clerestory New Testament
St. Peter Kempe clerestory New Testament
St. Philip Kempe clerestory New Testament
Pilgrim & Piety, flanked by Discretion, Charity and Prudence Crowninshield
St. Raphael, St. Michael, St. Gabriel, St. Uriel, Guardian of All Wise Men & Women Connick See also St.
Gabriel, St. Michael
Samaritans: There are two Samaritans: a Woman of Samaria is one of the Kempe New Testament windows and
the Good Samaritan is depicted in
one of the Amos Lawrence panes of the West window
Simeon & Anna Goodhue
St. Thomas Tiffany
St. Uriel See St. Raphael Connick
Old Testament
Clerestory windows Kempe
Abraham Amos
David Deborah
Elijah Elisha Ezekiel Ezra
Hosea
Isaac Isaiah
Jacob Jeremiah Joseph Joshua
Micah Micaiah Miriam Moses
Nehemiah
Ruth
Samuel Solomon
Zerubbabel:
Also Hosea: Lindsey Chapel Altar center figure above stone tracery
Symbols but no figures Bowditch West?
Add symbols from Lindsey Chapel , including Sibyls if Erythraean and Cumae Lindsey Chapel Altar center
figure above stone tracery, St. Peter, Mary of Bethany [or Martha], St. Mary and St. John Rotch reredos, and St.
Paul on Rice pulpit, various angels.
Mystery saint: Albert Whittier statue on North Wall near chancel Saint with halo and sword possibly St. Paul.
crop
Unnamed figure “I need thee every hour” Heaton Butler & Bayne Virginia Raguin's book Stained glass from its
origins to the present, 2003 describes this window as "a three dimensional figure in voluminous robes under a
complicated Gothic canopy."
Lindsey Chapel Altar Screen Saints Statues
Top row Left to right
Mary Magdalene
Mary Clopas, sister of the Virgin Mary
Mary Salome, wife of Zebedee with her two children apostles James the Elder and John
Veronica
Petronilla of Rome, third century martyr and virgin
Cecelia of Rome died 280? Martyr, Virginia and patron of music
Agnes of Rome died 302 martyr and Virginia with prayer book, palm of victory and lamb
Helena 248-328 mother of Constantine, discovered remains the true wooden cross, shown in her arms
Margaret of Antioch died 306 martyr, with martyr’s crown, cross topped spear and overcoming a dragon
Barbara died 303 virgin and martyr, with prayer book and her emblem a miniature tower
Apollonia of Alexandria died 249 deaconess and martyr, teeth extracted with pincers, patron of dentists
Catherine of Alexandria died 307 martyr crowned as a princess holding sword of her martyrdom with broken
wheel at her feet
Dorothy of Cappodocia died 303 martyr depicted with basket of golden apples and roses
Euphemia of Chalcedon died 307 martyr, carries palm of victory and one of the lions who refused to devour her
Perpetua and Felicitas of Carthage died 203 martyrs shown palms of victory
Middle row Left to right
Blandina of Lyons died 177 martyr depicted with martyr’s crown and palm of victory
Joan of Arc 1412-1431
Gertrude of Belgium 626-659 abbess and virgin symbol is mouse, here crawling up her crozier
Elizabeth of Hungary 1207-1231 princess and philanthropist, shown with loaves and roses.
Margaret of Scotland 1046-1093 queen
Hilda of Whitby 614-680 abbess and educator, depicted crowned with model of Whitby Monastery
Ethelreda of Ely 640-679 abbess and queen depicted crowned with her abbatical crozier and a prayer book
Ursula of Cologne and her 11 companions under her cloak
Bridget of Sweden 1303-1373 reformer abbess and educator, represented crowned, with prayer books, red spots
symbolic of Jesus’ wounds, his crown of thorns and crucifixion nails.
Christina of Bolsena 3rd century martyr carrying palm of victory and the millstone tied to her when thrown into a
lake
Clare of Assisi 1194-1253 abbess, depicted with Eucharistic paten
Catherine of Siena 1347-1380 reformer and spiritual teacher, carried lily and book of her Dialogue.
Agatha of Catania 3rd century martyr, shown holding the instrument used to cut off her breasts
Lucy of Syracuse c 283-304 martyr and Virginia, carried palm of victory and a lamp, as patron of the blind
Monica of Hippo 331-387 mother of Augustine of hippo, pictured with her hands raised in prayer
Julia of Corsica died c 616-620 martyr
Bottom row Left to right
*Genevieve of Paris 422-512 patron of Paris, pictured with book and a taper which a devil in the shape 9of a
storm tries vainly to blow out.
Gudule of Brussels died 712, shown holding a lantern which the devil unsuccessfully tries to blow out with a
bellows.
*Eulalia of Merida c 292-304 martyr and virgin
*Teresa of Avila 1515-1582 reformer, prioress and spiritual teacher, holds one of her treatises and her pen.
*Simon Verity carved these statues from Comper drawings located in the Victoria and Albert Museum London
Need photos of the three new statues.