Grace Church

Grace Church may refer to:

Grace Church (Newark)

Grace Church in Newark (Episcopal), located at 950 Broad Street in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, was founded on Ascension Day in 1837 at the behest of Bishop George Washington Doane, who intended it to be the standard bearer for Anglo-Catholicism in the northern part of his diocese (which then comprised the whole state of New Jersey).

The church building, designed by Richard Upjohn, who was also the architect of Trinity Church, New York, was consecrated on October 5, 1848. It is widely esteemed as an outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture in the United States. The church was built on the site of the old Essex County Courthouse and Jail which burnt down on August 15, 1835.

In Grace Church's liturgy the tradition of ceremonial grandeur inherited from the nineteenth-century Catholic Revival mingles with the influence of the twentieth-century Liturgical Movement. Incense, lights, and beautiful vestments are used, but the ceremonial is intelligible, and the contemporary-language rite from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer (Rite II) is used. Active participation of the people is encouraged.

Grace Church (Boston)

Grace Church (1835-1865) was an episcopal church in Boston, Massachusetts, located in Beacon Hill, on Temple Street. The church operated for 30 years. Ministers included Thomas M. Clark (1836-1843); Clement Moore Butler (1844-1847); and Charles Mason (1848-1862; d.1862).

Architect William Washburn designed the church building in 1835. In 1951, Isaac Smith Homans said:

In 1865 the building was "sold to the Methodist Episcopal Society of North Russell Street."

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Grace Church, c. 1851

Grace Church, c. 1851

Portrait of Charles Mason, minister 1848-1862

Portrait of Charles Mason, minister 1848-1862

Overview of Temple Street, 1870. Beacon Hill Reservoir (at right), West Church (at left)

Overview of Temple Street, 1870. Beacon Hill Reservoir (at right), West Church (at left)

Overview of reservoir, Grace Church (at center), part of Beacon Hill and West End, 19th century

Overview of reservoir, Grace Church (at center), part of Beacon Hill and West End, 19th century