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Final Steps

Restoration work on the bell of the Old Stone Church was near completion on Feb. 8, culminating in a two-year project that saw work done to the outside of the church’s steeple, which reaches 196 feet in height, and replacement of parts of the church bell for safety and operational reasons. Nick Volkman from The Verdin Company looks down through an opening in the steeple as he works on installing a new steel yolk to support the bell. The church bell was cast in 1798 by the Fenton Cochran Bell Foundry. The Old Stone Church held its first services in 1711 with Pastor Jacob Hemingway, the first student at Yale University which was then called the Collegiate School.