Holy Trinity is a very active Church located right on Route 28, the main thoroughfare of West Harwich about 3/4 of the way out along the southern coast of Cape Cod. The Church has had a Perpetual Adoration Chapel for five years, which was located in a small side area in one of the transept arms of the main Church. Some years ago, when benefactors approached the pastor with the idea of building a new Chapel dedicated solely to Perpetual Adoration, he went to the Bishop of Fall River, who enthusiastically embraced the idea. In fact, the Bishop agreed to donate a set of nine, century-old stained glass windos that had been salvaged from St. Matthew's Church in Fall River, Massachusetts when it was demolished in the late 1980's. The site selected for the new chapel was a wooded area of about 2 acres located to the rear of the main Church parking lot and separated from the Church by about 200 feet.
The Chapel itself is approximately 900 square feet including the Nave, Narthex, Sacristy and mechanical rooms. There is also an accessible toilet room and the entire facility is accessible to persons with disabilities.
The basic construction is masonry bearing wall construction with exposed heavy timber wood trusses and roof decking. The stone buttresses, which are visible on each side of the Chapel, are actively absorbing lateral loads from the roof trusses, just as their forbearers did a thousand years ago. The exterior is clad in New Hampshire Granite trimmed with Indiana Limestone.
The interior wall finishes are wet plaster with a stained oak wainscot. The floor is Buckingham slate with a Botticino Fiorito marble floor in the Sanctuary area. The Roofing is Buckingham Virginia Slate with stainless steel trim and accessories. Doors were custom made in oak to match the wainscot, trim and pews.
The original design determinant was the set of F.X. Zettler stained glass windows. The final design incorporates the original pointed arched windows and carries the shape and proportion of these windows throughout the chapel in the doors and trims.
