Statue of Phillips Brooks

Statue of Phillips Brooks
The memorial in 2007
Location	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Coordinates	42°21′0.7″N 71°4′32.1″W / 42.350194°N 71.075583°W / 42.350194; -71.075583Coordinates: 42°21′0.7″N 71°4′32.1″W / 42.350194°N 71.075583°W / 42.350194; -71.075583

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[]

The memorial is credited to sculptors Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Frances Grimes, and architects Stanford White and Charles Follen McKim. It was commissioned 1893 by the church congregation at a cost of $80,000, and was completed during 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]

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External links[]

• Media related to Phillips Brooks by Augustus Saint-Gaudens at Wikimedia Commons