Places: MA-Kings Chapel

Kings Chapel-46' (Boston South) (42.3584308, -71.0597732)
Kings Chapel Burying Ground-49' (Boston South) (42.3583567,  -71.0598343)

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Description:

We were calling it King's Church while we were in Boston, but GNIS says it is called Kings Chapel. It also calls itself Kings Chapel. Even though the Burying Grounds and the Chapel share the same names, they are not associated with each other. That explains why Dawes who also road the same night as Paul Revere was buried here.


King's Chapel is an independent Christian unitarian congregation affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association that is "unitarian Christian in theology, Anglican in worship, and congregational in governance."[2] It is housed in what was formerly called "Stone Chapel", an 18th-century structure at the corner of Tremont Street and School Street in Boston, Massachusetts. The chapel building, completed in 1754, is one of the finest designs of the noted colonial architect Peter Harrison, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 for its architectural significance.

Despite its name, the adjacent King's Chapel Burying Ground is not affiliated with the chapel or any other church; it pre-dates the chapel by over a century.  From Wikipedia

From GNIS:

• Kings Chapel.
• Built in 1754.
• U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service lists, brochures and handbooks.
• Also called:
• King's Chapel:  Insight Guide: Boston. Maspeth, New York: Langenscheidt, 2000
• King's Chapel Unitarian: Bahne, Charles. The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail. Second Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Newtowne Publishing, 1993.
• Stone Chapel: Bahne, Charles. The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail. Second Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Newtowne Publishing, 1993.
• Kings Chapel Burying Grounds
• This burying ground was the first in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and ti shelters Governor John Winthrop and William Dawes, Junior.
• U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service lists, brochures and handbooks.
• Also called King's Chapel Burying Ground:  Bahne, Charles. The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail. Second Edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Newtowne Publishing, 1993.

Trips:

• October 17, 2018-First half of the Freedom Trail

References:

• Kings Chapel web site
• Wikipedia
• The Freedom Trail information
• Boston Discovery Guide
• Boston Tea Party Museum
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Pictures:

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