Last week I featured the very detailed, gilded ship weathervane from on top of the Philips Exeter Academy Building, and this week it is the simple arrow weathervane from the Exeter Congregational Church. These two weathervanes are located just a few blocks from each other.
This weathervane sits above the United Church of Christ on 21 Front Street. This congregation was gathered in 1638 by the Reverend John Wheelwright who was exiled from Puritan Massachusetts. The current building was erected in 1798 and is the fifth meetinghouse for this congregation. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Abraham Lincoln attended services here while visiting his son at the Philips Exeter Academy, and his pew is marked. In the John Irving novel A Prayer for Owen Meany the protagonist attends this same congregation.
The Congregational Church in Exeter: http://www.exeterucc.org/
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Weathervane Wednesday - An Old Church", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 21, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/08/weathervane-wednesday-old-church.html: accessed [access date]).
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