St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church
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Holy Trinity Church
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| Location | 157 Montague, Brooklyn, NY |
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| Coordinates | 40°41′40.5″N 73°59′34.71″W / 40.694583°N 73.9929750°WCoordinates: 40°41′40.5″N 73°59′34.71″W / 40.694583°N 73.9929750°W |
| Built | 1844-1847 |
| Architect | Minard LaFever |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 87002590 |
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| Added to NRHP | December 23, 1987 |
| Designated NHL | December 23, 1987 |
St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church is a historic Episcopal church located at the corner of Montague and Clinton streets in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.
The building was built as Church of the Holy Trinity, and opened in 1847. Following years of controversy, the parish was closed in 1957, and the building stood mostly empty for the next 12 years. The present name of the parish reflects the fact that St. Ann's, the oldest Episcopal parish in Brooklyn, moved into the then empty Holy Trinity building in 1969. The church possesses some of the earliest figural stained-glass windows made in the United States, crafted by William Jay Bolton. The church was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.
The designer for Holy Trinity was prominent 19th century American architect Minard Lafever, with stained glass by William Jay Bolton and John Bolton. In 1859 English architect Gervase Wheeler was hired to enlarge and make improvements in the chancel such as modifications to the reading desk and adding pews; Wheeler was directed to follow the original plan in his work.
A rectory was constructed immediately west of the church between 1895 and 1897. The ground floor of this building now serves as the parish hall.
Following the departure of the St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts in 1999, the church complex continued to lease school, office, programming, rehearsal and concert space to a wide range of community service and arts groups. However, in 2013, full-time tenants were moved out of the Parish House.
St. Ann's Church (organized 1787) was originally named in honor of Ann Ayscough Sands (1761–1851), who was an early patron with her husband Joshua Sands. The church previously occupied the elaborate High Victorian Gothic building still standing on the northeast corner of Clinton and Livingston streets, built 1877-1878 to designs by James Renwick Jr. of Renwick & Sands. That church, which featured stained glass by Henry E. Sharp, was sold to the Packer Collegiate Institute.
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