Statue of Phillips Brooks
| Statue of Phillips Brooks | |
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 The memorial in 2007 | |
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| Location | Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 42°21′0.7″N 71°4′32.1″W / 42.350194°N 71.075583°W | |
A statue of Phillips Brooks is installed outside the Trinity Church in Boston's Copley Square, in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
Description and history
[edit]The memorial is credited to sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Frances Grimes, and architects Stanford White and Charles Follen McKim. It was commissioned in 1893 by the church congregation for $80,000 and completed from 1907–1910.[1] The bronze statues of Brooks and Jesus stand in a domed marble niche that measures approximately 17 ft. x 14 ft. 1 in. x 38 in. The figures rest on a granite base that measures approximately 5 x 11 x 9 ft. An inscription on the front of the base reads in bronze lettering: "PHILLIPS BROOKS / PREACHER OF THE WORD OF GOD / LOVER OF MANKIND / BORN IN BOSTON AD MDCCCXXXV / DIED IN BOSTON AD MDCCCXCIII / THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY / HIS FELLOW CITIZENS AD MCMX".[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Phillips Brooks, (sculpture)". Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original on August 7, 2023. Retrieved November 15, 2019.
External links
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Media related to Phillips Brooks by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at Wikimedia Commons
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