King’s Chapel (second) holds its first service.

Architect: Peter Harrison. Inspired by London’s Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields and built from Quincy granite, it is located at today’s 58 Tremont Street. It contains the oldest pulpit in continuous use in the U.S., is the first major granite building in Boston, and was built around and above its wooden predecessor, which is then disassembled and shipped to Nova Scotia. George Santayana later writes, “In those high-walled pews, with their locked doors, every worshipper might pray in secret as if in his own closet.” An Anglican church during the Siege of Boston, is subsequently used by the congregation of the Old South Church, then as the First Episcopal Church in 1782, which becomes Unitarian in 1787.* Anti-British sentiment prompts it to be called the Stone Chapel from 1776 to the 1830s. The front portico is added in 1789. A planned steeple is never built due to lack of funds. A bell cast by Paul Revere is installed in 1816.