The painted angels — with round childlike faces and wings — once were among the defining features of the Old North Church when they were painted around 1730. But officials at the church ...

Gibbs also painted angels on the organ case and an altar ... He contacted Robert Newman, the sexton of the Old North Church, and asked him to hang two lanterns from the building’s tower.

BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—The Sentinel reports that conservators Gianfranco Pocobene and Corrine Long have removed seven layers of paint from eight images of angels at Boston’s Old North Church.