Furnishings & Memorials: Lobbies & Other Areas

Letters for particular objects on this page refer to a floorplan of our sanctuary.


M. Two stone plaques in our main lobby are inscribed with the names of parishioners who lost their lives in World War I:

 

Oric Bates, Ezra Charles Fitch Jr., Edward Hooper Gardiner, Prescott Wilder Gould, Harold Brittan Klingman, Samuel Pierce Mandell & David Warfield Patterson

Edward Hale Perry, Nathan Stone Simpkins Jr., Kenneth Weeks, Lawrence Barrett Williams & Richmond Young.

M1. A Carved stone plaque near the Baylor Vestibule was given by the congregation in 1911 in memory of James Haynes (1836-1900), born in Wantage, England; sexton for 40 years; and undertaker. The inscription from Psalm 84:10 reads: One day in thy courts is better than a thousand.  I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of the ungodly.

 

M3.  The oak settle in our main lobby, which is believed to come from the Massachusetts office of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was bequeathed by the widow (Mary Stacy Beaman Holmes: 1875-1964) of his nephew Edward Jackson Holmes (1873-1950).

 

 

M4. This stone plaque recognizes the memorial gift of the lanterns within and outside the vestibule of our eastern door friends of Courtenay Baylor, who was active in the Emmanuel Movement.  It says: “Counsellor, guide, and friend.  the lanterns at this door are dedicated to shed light on our way.”

M5.  The ringed Greek crosses above the internal doors to the Baylor vestibule are one of our building’s mysteries.  If you know who donated or selected them, please contact archivist@emmanuelboston.org.

 

 

 

 

S. The sacristy adjacent to the Lindsey Chapel’s chancel was given in memory of Ruth Humphrey Moulton (1892-1965) by her family and friends in gratitude for her life and ministry.  A rood screen, which once surrounded around that area, was constructed for the film “The Proposition” starring Kenneth Branagh, which was filmed at Emmanuel in 1998.

 

 

Photo credits: Julian Bullitt & Elizabeth Richardson.

Alphanumerics refers to this floor plan.