Trinity Church

Creator

Richard Munday
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Date Range

1725 - 1726

Photographer

William King Covell

Location

Newport, Rhode Island, United States

Worktype

churches (buildings)

Style/Period

American Colonial; Anglican (Church of England)

Image Type

photographic prints; enlargements (copies)

Image Measurements

8 inches x 10 inches

Inscription

[8 inches x 10 inches verso, typed, top:] From the show called "RHODE ISLAND ARCHITECTURE", June, 1939- October / 20, 1939. At the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, / Providence, Rhode Island. / Exhibited Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, November and December, 1939. / Exhibited Lawrence College, January, 1940. / Selected examples exhibited Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, / March, 1940. [verso, typed, bottom:] TRINITY CHURCH, Newport, 1725-26. By Richard Munday. / Photo by Covell. / This Anglican church follows the models provided by Wren's London churches / of a generation earlier rather than the American seventeenth century meeting- / house. Extended in 1762. [enlargement, typed label, bottom right:] [upper left of typed label, handwritten in pencil:] 18 [typed portion of label:] TRINITY CHURCH, 1725-26 / Newport / Architect: Richard Munday / This Anglican church follows the models provided by Wren's / London churches of a generation earlier rather than the / American 17th century meeting house type. Extended in 1762. / Photo by Covell

Description

interior; Photograph exhibited in Rhode Island Architecture Exhibition, 1939, RISD Museum. Curated by RISD Museum Director Alexander Dorner (tenure 1938-1941) and architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock.