First Parish Church in Plymouth

Coordinates: 41°57′19.9″N 70°39′53.8″W / 41.955528°N 70.664944°W / 41.955528; -70.664944
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First Parish Church in Plymouth
Unitarian Universalist
Membership64 (2016)
Websitefirstparishplymouth.org
History
StatusActive
Founded1606
Architecture
Heritage designationNational Register of Historic Places
Designated2014
Architectural typeNeo-Romanesque
Years built1899
Clergy
Minister(s)Rev. Art Lavoie

First Parish Church in Plymouth is a historic

Pilgrims
in Plymouth. The current building was constructed in 1899.

History

Congregation

The congregation was founded in the English community of

state church, the Congregational church. Eventually, a schism developed in 1801, when much of the congregation adopted Unitarianism along with many of the other state churches in Massachusetts; the Congregationalist dissenters broke away to form the Church of the Pilgrimage. All state churches were disaffiliated with the government by 1834.[1]
The congregation is currently affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association and has 64 members as of 2016.[2]

Buildings

Originally, the congregation held

stained glass windows illustrating the Pilgrim story. The sanctuary features carved quarter-sawn oak and is one of the finest examples of hammer beam construction
in the United States.

Gallery

  • Burial Hill Fort, ca. 1621, housed the original church in Plymouth. From Perkins et al.: Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Mass., 1902.
    Burial Hill Fort, ca. 1621, housed the original church in Plymouth. From Perkins et al.: Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Mass., 1902.
  • William Harlow House, built in 1677 in Plymouth, made of timbers from the Burial Hill Fort, (meeting place of First Parish Church). From Perkins et al.: Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Mass., 1902.
    William Harlow House
    , built in 1677 in Plymouth, made of timbers from the Burial Hill Fort, (meeting place of First Parish Church). From Perkins et al.: Handbook of Old Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Mass., 1902.
  • 1683 First Parish Meeting House
    1683 First Parish Meeting House
  • 1744 First Parish Meeting House
    1744 First Parish Meeting House
  • 1831 First Parish Meeting House
    1831 First Parish Meeting House
  • 1899 First Parish Meeting House
    1899 First Parish Meeting House
  • First Parish Church in Town Square, ca. 1905
    First Parish Church in Town Square, ca. 1905
  • First Parish is at the rear, while the white church to the right is the Church of the Pilgrimage
    First Parish is at the rear, while the white church to the right is the Church of the Pilgrimage
  • interior
    interior

See also

References

  1. ^ Paul Erasmus Lauer, Church and state in New England (Johns Hopkins Press, 1892) pp. 105–107 [1] (accessed September 20, 2009)
  2. ^ "Search Congregations". Unitarian Universalist Association. Archived from the original on January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
  3. ISBN 978-1-59629-228-4
    .

External links

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