Trinity Church
— a steeple the city kept building taller around.
Not only on a wall.
Trinity Church, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“An Episcopal parish at the head of Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, founded by royal charter in 1697. The Gothic Revival church standing now is the third on the site, consecrated in 1846 to a design by Richard Upjohn. Its 281-foot brownstone spire was the tallest point in New York for almost half a century. Alexander Hamilton is buried in the churchyard.
The place, in three passes.
Trinity Church stands at the corner of Broadway and Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, the parish church of one of the oldest Episcopal congregations in the United States. Founded by charter from King William III in 1697, the parish has occupied this site through three buildings. The first was lost in the great fire of 1776 during the British occupation. The second was demolished after structural failure in 1839. The present church, designed by Richard Upjohn, was consecrated on Ascension Day, 21 May 1846, on roughly the same footprint as its predecessor.
Upjohn designed the church in the Gothic Revival style, drawing on English parish models. The exterior is brownstone quarried in Little Falls, New Jersey, with a single 281-foot spire that made the church the tallest building in New York from 1846 until the Equitable Life Building rose in 1890. The bronze doors, modelled on the Baptistery doors of Florence, were added in 1894 in memory of John Jacob Astor III. The nave's stained glass dates from the same Upjohn campaign and remains largely intact, restored in the 2010s preservation work.
The church is open daily for visitors, generally 8:30 to 18:00, with shorter Sunday hours around services. Free guided tours run on most weekday afternoons, and free noon concerts are offered in the nave on most Thursdays. The churchyard, on the church's north and south sides, holds the graves of Alexander Hamilton and his wife Eliza, Robert Fulton, and signers and soldiers of the Revolution. The nearest subway is Rector Street on the 1 line, two blocks south of the church door.
