Trinity Church is a historic church at 160 Main Street in
Thomaston, Connecticut
Thomaston is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 7,442 at the 2020 census. The urban center of the town is the Thomaston census-designated place, with a population of 1,928 at the 2020 census.
History
The t ...
. Built in two stages, 1871 and 1880, to a design by
Richard M. Upjohn, it is a good example of Gothic and Stick Style architecture. The church was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 1984.
It is now part of a merged parish with St. Peter's of
Plymouth.
Description and history
Trinity Church is prominently located in the center of Thomaston, between
the opera house and the public library on the north side of Main Street. It is a wood frame Stick style structure, with a complex roof line and a board-and-batten exterior that is a modern aluminum covering for the original, which lies underneath. Its main roof has a front-facing gable, from which cross gables at full height extend, giving a basically cruciform shape to the roof. At the front there is a hip-roofed extension to the left, and a gabled extension to the right that ends in the square tower. A larger hip-roofed cross section extends at the back of the main building. The tower is square for two stories, then begins a steeply-pitched roof section that ends in an open belfry, with a small pyramidal roof at the top. Stick decorations adorn its gables. The interior is modestly decorated, with exposed curved roof trusses, and decorative woodwork in the chancel area.
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The church was designed by
Richard M. Upjohn, and is in some respects a continuation of
his father's promotion of the Gothic Revival, albeit in a more modern sense. The younger Upjohn's best-known work is the
Connecticut State Capitol
The Connecticut State Capitol is located north of Capitol Avenue and south of Bushnell Park in Hartford, the capital of Connecticut. The building houses the Connecticut General Assembly; the upper house, the State Senate, and lower house, the Ho ...
, and he had already designed four similar churches when he created the design for the Thomaston church, which is larger and more elaborate than those earlier designs.
See also
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References
External links
St. Peters-Trinity Church web site
{{National Register of Historic Places
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut
Queen Anne architecture in Connecticut
Churches completed in 1871
19th-century churches in the United States
Thomaston, Connecticut
Churches in Litchfield County, Connecticut
Richard Michell Upjohn church buildings
National Register of Historic Places in Litchfield County, Connecticut