All Saints Episcopal Church - Boston, MA
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N 42° 17.158 W 071° 03.804
19T E 329877 N 4683589
Begun as a mission of St. Mary's Church Dorchester, All Saints was founded in 1867 to serve Church of England workers who had come to work for the Old Colony Railroad and other local industries.
Waymark Code: WM3CK4
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 03/15/2008
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From:
A BRIEF GUIDE TO ALL SAINTS' CHURCH
by Bill Buckingham
The Parish of All Saints is blessed with a church building of exceptional beauty and considerable importance in American architectural history. The cornerstone of the present church was laid in 1892. It was built to replace the modest wood-frame chapel, built in Lower Mills in 1872 and moved up Dorchester Avenue to Ashmont in 1882, which the parish had outgrown. The first church designed by Ralph Adams Cram, All Saints' was published in virtually every American and European architectural journal and in Cram's widely-read book, Church Building.
Cram's contribution did not cease when the church was opened in1893; he and his colleagues continued to enlarge and embellish the church for several decades. Under his guidance, All Saints' became a treasure house of ecclesiastical art in many media, including painting, sculpture, stained glass, and metalwork.
A brief guide such as this cannot do justice to the many artists and craftpeople involved; their work is extensively treated in the Centennial History of the parish written by Douglass Shand Tucci.
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