First Church of Jamaica Plain
- Architect
- Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee
- Year
- 1854
- Style
- Gothic Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The First Church of Jamaica Plain is a stone Gothic Revival church at 6 Eliot Street, designed in 1854 by the well-known Boston architect Nathaniel J. Bradlee for a congregation founded in 1769 as the Third Church of Roxbury. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and folded into the Monument Square Historic District in 1990.
the building
Unadorned granite tower. The church is built of ashlar granite laid in plain courses without ornament, rising to a square tower with Gothic arched windows at the second level, a clock face at the third, louvered Gothic openings at the belfry, and a parapeted top.
A later Shingle Style addition. A parish hall was added in 1889 in the Shingle Style, designed by the firm Cabot, Everett & Mead, extending the building beyond Bradlee's original Gothic Revival church.
the style
Bradlee's design is Gothic Revival rendered in plain granite rather than the more common wood or brick, giving the church a severe, unornamented reading of the style.
More on Gothic Revivalthe architect
Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee was a well-known 19th-century Boston architect; he designed this church in 1854 for the Third Church of Roxbury's congregation.
significance
The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988 and included in the Monument Square Historic District in 1990.
nearby
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