Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity Burial Ground
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Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity Burial Ground

West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA

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  • Get directions West Barnard Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19382, United States
    Coordinates: 39.95499, -75.60860
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The Borough of West Chester had been in existence for some years before the first Episcopal services were held within its borders. In 1834, Anthony Bolmar became principal of the West Chester Academy, and his boarding school drew in students from all corners of the country, many of whom were Episcopalian. For their benefit, the Reverend Levi Bull conducted services at the school. These services attracted Borough residents and on November 23rd, 1834, the church of the Holy Trinity was established. In 1839, a church building was established on West Gay Street.

In 1843, Bolmar sold a lot of land to the congregation in a section of the Borough of West Chester that was outside the main area of development and was not built up, for use as a burying ground, immediately adjoining the burial ground of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Other denominations – Baptist and Presbyterian – had also opened up their own burial grounds on the same block, and by 1848 the whole row would be burial grounds, in this order: beginning at New Street and extending to Wayne: First, the Baptist; second, Presbyterian; third, Methodist, fourth and last, Episcopal. The lots were of nearly the same size and extended back from Barnard Street to an alley that divided the square.

The pressures of ongoing development ultimately made the land on which the burial grounds were established too valuable. September 2nd, 1858, the congregation sold the burial ground to William B. Waddell to build housing. Their dead were taken up and moved elsewhere, many to Oaklands Cemetery, where the church had purchased a burial lot around the same time.

Today, Holy Trinity maintains memorial garden on its grounds.

The Borough of West Chester had been in existence for some years before the first Episcopal services were held within its borders. In 1834, Anthony Bolmar became principal of the West Chester Academy, and his boarding school drew in students from all corners of the country, many of whom were Episcopalian. For their benefit, the Reverend Levi Bull conducted services at the school. These services attracted Borough residents and on November 23rd, 1834, the church of the Holy Trinity was established. In 1839, a church building was established on West Gay Street.

In 1843, Bolmar sold a lot of land to the congregation in a section of the Borough of West Chester that was outside the main area of development and was not built up, for use as a burying ground, immediately adjoining the burial ground of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Other denominations – Baptist and Presbyterian – had also opened up their own burial grounds on the same block, and by 1848 the whole row would be burial grounds, in this order: beginning at New Street and extending to Wayne: First, the Baptist; second, Presbyterian; third, Methodist, fourth and last, Episcopal. The lots were of nearly the same size and extended back from Barnard Street to an alley that divided the square.

The pressures of ongoing development ultimately made the land on which the burial grounds were established too valuable. September 2nd, 1858, the congregation sold the burial ground to William B. Waddell to build housing. Their dead were taken up and moved elsewhere, many to Oaklands Cemetery, where the church had purchased a burial lot around the same time.

Today, Holy Trinity maintains memorial garden on its grounds.

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  • Added: 26 Jul 2023
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2782386