fcsarch 21 colonial georgian churches
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Three Colonial Churches (Philadelphia and Providence)TRANSCRIPT
Three Colonial Churches
Christ Church completed in 1744. A steeple was added ten
years later. Contemporaries were in awe of the finished house of worship, one remarking that "it was the handsomest structure of the kind that I ever saw in any part of the world; uniting in the peculiar features of that species of architecture, the most elegant variety of forms, with
the most chaste simplicity of combination.”
Christ Church, 1727 Second & Marketarchitect unknown
Christ Church, interior
Saint Peter’s (1758)
Saint Peter’s 1758 Third & PineRobert Smith
Saint Peter’s, side
Saint Peter’s, back (Palladian window)
Saint Peter’s, interior
First Baptist Church in America, 1774
First Baptist Church, 1774 Providence, RIJoseph Brown
Colonial Baptist ChurchBelieved to be the first Baptist church in America, the Providence congregation, founded by Roger Williams, was organized in 1639. The meeting house, shown
here, was constructed in 1774-1775 from plans by architect Joseph Brown, after a design by James Gibbs. This church shows that some colonial Baptists had no
compunctions about erecting imposing church buildings.
First Baptist Church, 1774 Providence, RIJoseph Brown
entrance
baptistery
interior
No stained glass
Christ Church, interior
Warped column (no heat)
interior doorway detail (Georgian)