Grace Church, Newark
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| Location | 950 Broad Street, Newark, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates | 40°43′50.22″N 74°10′27.77″W / 40.7306167°N 74.1743806°WCoordinates: 40°43′50.22″N 74°10′27.77″W / 40.7306167°N 74.1743806°W |
| Built | 1847 |
| Architect | Richard Upjohn, C. Harrison Condit |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 72000776 |
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| Added to NRHP | November 2, 1972 |
| Designated NHL | December 23, 1987 |
Grace Church in Newark (Episcopal), is an active and historic Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Newark. It is located on Newark, New Jersey's Broad Street where it has stood since 1837. Grace, a traditional church that worships in the Catholic tradition, is home to a very lively and friendly congregation engaged in urban ministry, fellowship and art. Grace is especially notable for its architecture, music, and as the birthplace of the tune "America the Beautiful.[1]"
Grace Church was founded on Ascension Day in 1837 at the behest of Bishop George Washington Doane. As part of what is today called the Oxford Movement, Grace's founders emphasized the sacramental worship and succession of bishops of the Episcopal and Anglican Churches as their direct link to Christ, the Apostolic community and its Eucharistic worship –a sister to the Roman Catholic Church. A daughter parish of Trinity Church, Bishop Doane explicitly founded the church in the growing city to be the standard bearer for Anglo-Catholicism in the diocese.[2] To this day, Grace's remains dedicated to offering its timeless worship to the city and it's people.
The church building, designed by Richard Upjohn, who was also the architect of Trinity Church, New York, was consecrated on October 5, 1848. It is widely esteemed as an outstanding example of Gothic Revival architecture in the United States. The church was built on the site of the old Essex County Courthouse and Jail which burnt down on August 15, 1835. The massive, single bell in the tower which is rung by hand every Sunday, was installed before the consecration in 1848.[3] Paid for by an Episcopalian textile manufacture in Newark, the bell has been rung for many solemn occasions, including to support the Federal soldiers defending Fort Sumter in 1861.
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