The carved oak pulpit (front and left of altar) has figures on it representing Stephen, Peter, Paul, John the Baptist Barnabas and Apollos. It is a memorial to Hugh Auchincloss Vestryman and later warden of Grace from 1885-1890. It was designed by William Welles Bosworth and carved by Ellin & Kitson Company. The pulpit was an 1892 gift of Mr. & Mrs. Lewis P. Child. Mrs. Child was the daughter of Mr. Auchincloss.
Apollos
(1st Century AD)
was a Jew from Alexandria who was an early Christian. He was an important member of the congregation at Corinth Greece and considered a revered teacher by Paul the Apostle. Martin Luther thought Apollos was the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
Ellin & Kitson Company
(1867 – 1900)
were based in New York City. The firm carved the Caen stone altar, pulpit, and reredos, a replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Mamaroneck, NY, and they carved the pulpit at Grace Church in New York City. They made carvings in the Gothic room in Marble House, Newport, RI — designed by Richard Morris Hunt for Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt.
William Welles Bosworth
(b. 1869 Marietta, Ohio – d. Vaucresson, France 1966)
graduated from MIT as an architect and helped design the MIT campus. He worked with several Boston architects. In 1899, he worked in the office of Frederick Law Olmsted. He later moved to Europe to study painting with Alma-Tadema and architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts. Sr. Returning to the states, he worked for Carrere & Hastings. In 1869, he designed the Louis J. Heintz memorial for Joyce Kilmer Park in the Bronx. He designed John D. Rockefellar's granite home in Pocantico Hill, N.Y.In 1913, he designed 195 Broadway in New York City as AT&T's corporate headquarters In 1917, he designed the formal gardens at Kijkuit, John D. Rockefeller's New York estate — the best surviving Beaux-Arts gardens in the U.S. He did the landscaping at Stanford University. He returned to France during WWI and after a short trip back to America, returned to France to live and work. In 1926, as general secretary of the French-American Committee for the Restoration of Historic Monuments, Bosworth supervised the restoration of the palaces of Versailles and Fontainebleau and the cathedrals at Rheims and Chartres. These projects were funded largely by John D. Rockefeller Jr. Bosworth returned to the U.S. during WWII, but afterwards returned to France where he spent the rest of his life. He held the French Legion of Honor award and the Cross of the Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. He was a fellow in the AIA and, during WWII, he was chairman of the Paris committee of the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps.
Hugh Auchincloss
(b. 1858 Newport, RI – d. NYC 1913)
was a merchant and owner of Auchincloss Brothers. He graduated from Yale in 1870 and was a member of the Yale Alumni Association and the University Club. He was a member of the Metropolitan and New York Yacht Clubs, the Century Association and the New England and St. Andrew's Societies. He served as director in The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, the Bank of Manhattan Company, The Bowery Savings Bank and Consolidated Gas Company. He was the step-grandfather of Jacqueline Onassis Kennedy
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