King’s Chapel was the first Anglican Church in Boston. In 1687, Governor Edmund Andros, an Anglican, ordered it built on a corner of the Old Burying Ground. It was a wooden building. In 1754, a new, larger building was completed. The new church was the first granite building in Boston.

In 1789, George Washington attended a concert in King’s Chapel. The bell in the church was installed in 1816. It is the largest bell ever made by Paul Revere.