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Item Title
Trinity Church (P. E.), 651 Pequot Road, Southport, Fairfield County, CT
Location651 Pequot Road,
Southport, CT
Find maps of Southport, CT
Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CT-312
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-32, FN-33).
Building/structure dates:
1856 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1862 subsequent work
Significance: Trinity Church of Southport was designed by Bridgeport and Cincinnati architect Albert C. Nash and erected during the years 1854-56. Because of the building's near total destruction by wind during a tornado on January 1, 1862, the church was completely rebuilt as originally planned, with a few structural alterations. The simple rectangular block is topped by a pitched roof and fronted by a central tower and slender polygonal spire. The tower parapet with Gothic corner pinnacles and the crenelated roof parapet enrich while softening the austere appearance of the front facade's symmetrical arrangement and the regularity which pervades the total design. Trinity is an excellent work of early Gothic Revival church architecture in wood, patterned after Ithiel Town's model Trinity Church (1814-17) in New Haven and Benjamin Latrobe's Christ Church (1808) in Washington, D.C. This mode was quite popular through the rural Northeast after the first decades of the 19th century with the colonies' toleration of religious diversity and the Episcopal Church's subsequent expansion. This building was the fifth church erected by the Episcopal Society of Fairfield; the first was built in Mill Plain in 1725 when the Congregational Faith and Order was still the established church of Connecticut (remaining so until the early 19th century). The parish has grown in numbers and activeness since its beginnings here in the 1850s and remains a strong centralizing force within the community to the present day.
Subjects
Episcopal Churches
Related Names
Nash, Albert C.
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 GENERAL VIEW OF EXTERIOR
2. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 GENERAL VIEW OF NORTHWEST (FRONT) FACADE
3. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF NORTHWEST FACADE
4. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF NORTHWEST FACADE FROM NORTH
5. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF FRONT DOOR
6. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 GENERAL VIEW OF SOUTHWEST ELEVATION
7. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF SOUTHWEST ELEVATION
8. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 GENERAL VIEW OF TOWER
9. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF TOWER, LOOKING UP
10. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF STEEPLE FROM WEST
11. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF TOWER STAGING
12. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF SOUTHEAST APSE
13. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF SOUTH FINIAL FROM WEST
14. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF NORTH FINIAL
15. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF NORTH FINIAL FROM WEST
16. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 GENERAL VIEW OF OAK TREE TO SOUTH
17. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF OAK TREE TO SOUTH OF CHURCH
18. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 GENERAL VIEW OF INTERIOR FROM NORTH
19. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 GENERAL VIEW OF INTERIOR FROM SOUTH BALCONY
20. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 GENERAL VIEW OF ORGAN AND CHOIR BALCONY
21. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF NORTHEAST BALCONY
22. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 TYPICAL BAY ON NORTH SIDE
23. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF NORTH END BALCONY
24. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF SOUTHEAST SIDE BALCONY
25. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF BRACKET UNDER ORGAN BALCONY, NORTHWEST END
26. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF SPRING BLOCK OF VAULT ARCH, BALCONY
27. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 GENERAL VIEW OF ALTAR
28. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF TYPICAL ALTAR RAIL BRACKET
29. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF ALTAR RAIL, EAGLE LECTURN
30. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 GENERAL VIEW OF PULPIT
31. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF ALTAR CANDLESTICKS
32. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF BAPTISMAL FONT
33. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF ALTAR CROSS, LAMB INSCRIPTION
34. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF ALTAR CROSS, IHS INSCRIPTION
35. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 ALTAR VASES
36. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 ALTAR CANDELABRUM
37. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF TYPICAL PEW, MAIN FLOOR
38. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer Sept 1966 DETAIL OF PEW
39. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF PEW, SOUTH BALCONY
40. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF TILE FLOOR AT FOOT OF ALTAR
41. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF TYPICAL WINDOW, NORTH SIDE
42. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF TYPICAL WINDOW, SOUTH
43. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer September 1966 DETAIL OF SECOND FLOOR WINDOW, FRONT
44. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL STAINED GLASS WINDOW, NORTH SIDE, 'LAMB OF GOD'
45. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL STAINED GLASS WINDOW, NORTH SIDE, 'PELICAN IN HER PIETY'
46. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL STAINED GLASS WINDOW, NORTH SIDE, FOLIATED GREEK CROSS
47. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL STAINED GLASS WINDOW, NORTH SIDE, 'DOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT'
48. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF CIRCULAR WINDOW, STORED IN ATTIC
49. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF DOOR TO SOUTH BALCONY
50. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 STAIRWAY TO BALCONY
51. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF STAIRWAY TO BALCONY, SOUTHWEST CORNER
52. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF TYPICAL COLUMN CAPITALS
53. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF TURRET, BASE OF FINIAL
54. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF ATTIC FRAMING, SOUTH SIDE, WEST END
55. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF ORIGINAL PLASTER & LATH, ATTIC, SOUTH WALL
56. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 GENERAL VIEW OF ORIGINAL PLASTER & LATH, ATTIC
57. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF BELLFRAMING
58. Historic American Buildings Survey Jack E. Boucher, Photographer May 1968 DETAIL OF TOWER FRAMING
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