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uritan Meetinghouse and Church Architecture, 1630-
1830
A Study Sanctity of Place
Lori Pastor
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My Objectives are to Demonstrate:
The dramatic shift from English church to Puritan meetinghouse
The transitional stage between Puritan meetinghouse and Puritan church
The final period of the Puritan church
Excel Project
The English Experience (Pre-1630)
The Anglican Church The Origins of Puritanism The Atlantic Voyage
Canterbury Cathedral, England
Two Stories
Windows
Square
Plain
House-like
Central
A “House in which to Meet” (1630-1720)
Old Ship Meetinghouse Parson Capen House
Characteristics:
NO MUSIC ALLOWED
Puritan Service & Architecture
Old Ship Pulpit
Galleries and Benches Communion Table Pulpit
Old South Interior
Old Ship Meetinghouse
The oldest extant Puritan meetinghouse
The Transition (1720-1800)
Branford Meetinghouse
Elongation Frontal Tower
Characteristics:
The Changing Religious Service
Benches to Pews
The Sound of Music
Old South
The Transitional Meetinghouse
Elongated
Flush Tower
The Church (1800-1830)
Columns & Cornices
Belfries & clocks
Litchfield Congregational Church Otis House
Characteristics:
Liturgical and Denominational Changes
The Puritan The synthesis
between "plain design" and the new religious architecture
New pulpit Old pulpit
Split
First Congregational Church of Litchfield
The Puritan—Congregational Church
“Symbols are powerful. At some points in human history, groups have tried to leave symbols behind. The Puritans eliminated all iconography from their stark meetinghouses, determined to reach God only through their hearts and minds. But symbolism crept back in. Rational, intellectual pursuits of the 20th century are giving way to the human need to express something more than the rational. Hence the quest for spirituality and the rise again of the use of symbols to express that spirituality.
“It would be nice if we all understood the symbols of religion in the same way. But in our ever-changing, pluralistic world in which every religious tradition has as many splits and differences as they all do, I don’t think any of the symbols are normative. They all need careful interpretation so that we do not misunderstand each other.”
--From Rev. Laurie Hotchkiss, “If These Walls Could Talk,” First in a series of sermons about symbolism, The First Parish in Milton,
September 23, 2001
Conclusions: The Sanctity of Place
Selected Bibliography
Produced by Lori Pastor
Special thanks to Dr. Thomas Jodziewicz Rev. Laurie Hotchkiss & Tom Thoits
Thank you