Our Place - photos of Trinity Lime Rock

Our Place: part of the Trinity Church Photo Album

Trinity's buildings, April 2008. Left: sanctuary. Center: Walker Hall. Right: new addition.

From its beginnings, Trinity's physical plant has been recognized as uniquely attractive -- as well might the church built for his community by the wealthiest man in the Northwest Corner at the time of its construction in 1874. Details of the founding of Trinity can be seen in our history pages.

In 1900, a major renovation of the interior of the worship space was undertaken by the Gessner Company, still today a force in church design and architecture, and funded by the Barnum and Richardson families. It was around this time that The Connecticut Magazine featured the church's architecture and charm.

The fact that the collapse of the Upper Housatonic Valley iron industry before 1920 obviated any external (and most internal) modification of the structure until the construction of Walker Hall in the early 1960s may have had the beneficial effect of preserving the original structure little changed from its original form. This no doubt contributed to the choice of Trinity by Better Homes and Gardens for an article not long after.

The 1990s marked the acquisition of an eight acre field adjacent to the church from the Goodwin family, the same family that, 125 years earlier, had donated the acre of land for construction of the original church.

As the millennium dawned, Trinity was again building -- this time, an award-winning wing with the assistance of Centerbrook Architects. Photographs documenting the construction of this wing can be seen here.

Today, our facility, which is handicapped accessible, consists of:

The original Trinity Church, seating approximately 200, with most furnishings dating from either the original construction or the 1900 renovation, with the addition of a Rodgers digital organ with three manuals and AGA pedal board. The church interior was refurbished in 2004 with considerable attention to preserving original details. An undercroft provides abundant storage space.

Walker Hall, a 40 x 60 high-ceilinged open space, fully carpeted, with French doors opening onto a cloister with Trinity Field forming a visual backdrop.

Connecting Walker Hall and the church, a passageway with a clergy office, a fully-equipped kitchen, rest rooms, an alcove for choir and acolyte robes, and the Guild Room, a 20 x 20 space opening into Walker Hall.

The new addition, with offices, Sunday School classrooms, the parish library, and rest rooms. Wi-Fi access is available in the addition as well as in Walker Hall.

Trinity Field, recently renamed Reid Field in honor of the donor who retired the note for its purchase, used for parking for parish functions and by our neighbor, Lime Rock Park, as well as parish activities including sports such as summer soccer. A plot plan is available on our Sports and Recreation page, and a plan of our buildings is available on our self-guided tour page. A rectory and garage complete Trinity's physical plant.

On this page are some photos of our physical place at Trinity! Click on the thumbnail images to see full-sized photos. We're in the process of updating them, so check back frequently to watch our progress. And CLICK HERE to see the people of Trinity!

The Trinity Cross seen above the snowy roof of Walker Hall, 2007

Trinity Cross and snowy roof, 2007

But we'll be moving many of the pictures toward the bottom of this page to our history section soon. Why? Well, in 2003 - 2004 we were involved in a major construction project, which increased by more than 1/3 the size of our physical plant and refurbished much of the interior of the older buildings as well.

There's another reason, too. Our physical location is a gift -- particularly our nearly nine acre field, and part of that gift entails the need to use it the right way. Thus, we are beginning to emphasize Sports and Recreation as one of the important things we do at Trinity. You can see a plot plan of our premises, showing the field as well as the location of our present buildings, at that page.

On this page are some some records of our 2003 - 2004 building project: our addition and renovation:

--On Trinity Sunday, 2003, Bishop Curry broke ground for the addition. CLICK HERE to see pictures from that day.

--Real construction of the addition began shortly thereafter. We diligently captured the construction process, week by week, as it progressed over the winter and into the spring and summer of 2004. CLICK HERE to see pictures of the construction -- through early summer 2004. (Hint: you'll know more than you ever wanted to about how our addition was constructed by the time you're done with this set of pictures!)

--Here are two pictures at the conclusion of the renovation of Walker Hall back in April 2004. Click on either of these pictures to see a larger image.

4/15/2004: The cubicles that housed Sunday School classes in Walker Hall are gone now -- only the administration cube remains (on right), awaiting carpeting in the new administration office. The new windows are in place.

4/14/2004: The doorway from Walker Hall into the new addition. You can see this doorway in the center of the Walker Hall interior photo on the left.

to watch the way the new addition was built!! (These are the ones in excruciating detail we mentioned above.)

Here are some older photos of our exterior in the 1999 - 2002 period:

Outside:

-- looking out on our nine acre Trinity Field in Winter: (click on any of the images for a real sense of just how big Trinity Field really is!)

and in Spring:

(Trinity Field -- now known as Reid Field at Trinity -- is where we have conducted our Summer Soccer program since its beginnings in 2005 -- and where we hope to be conducting it for a long time to come. You can see a plot plan showing it -- as well as our present structures -- on our page about Sports and Recreation.)

-- the Church seen from Route 112:

-- from the corner of Route 112 and Dugway Road:

Inside:

Lots more to come .... in fact, a whole new set of pictures showing the way Trinity looks now, with our new addition complete is on the way.

to see pictures of our Buildings and Grounds 2002 Spring Cleanup day!

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