King's Chapel

King's Chapel at Tremont Street

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Quick Facts

Location:

Tremont and School Street, Boston

Significance:

1754 Stone Church Built for the First Anglican Church in Boston

Designation:

National Historic Landmark; Freedom Trail Site

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King's Chapel

King’s Chapel, designed by Peter Harrison in 1749 for the first Anglican congregation in Boston, possesses one of the most elegant Georgian church interiors of the colonial era. The congregation was a stronghold of Loyalist opposition, and most of its members left for England and Nova Scotia in 1776. In 1787 those who remained organized the nation’s first Unitarian congregation. The burying ground next to the chapel contains the remains of John Winthrop, the colony’s first governor, as well as the gravestone that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write The Scarlet Letter.