Parish of All Saints Ashmont facts for kids
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All Saints Church
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| Location | 211 Ashmont Street Boston, Massachusetts |
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| Area | 1.1 acres (0.45 ha) |
| Built | 1892 |
| Architect | Cram, Ralph Adams |
| Architectural style | Modern Gothic |
| NRHP reference No. | 80000678 |
| Added to NRHP | June 16, 1980 |
All Saints Church, also known as The Parish of All Saints, Ashmont, is a beautiful church in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It belongs to the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. This church was built between 1892 and 1929. It was one of the first big projects for a famous architect named Ralph Adams Cram. He greatly influenced how Gothic-style churches and other buildings looked in the early 1900s. All Saints Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. This means it's an important historical building. A group called Historic New England helps protect it.
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Church Design and Style
All Saints Church is in southern Dorchester. It's easy to reach from the Ashmont station on the MBTA Red Line. The church building is mostly a long rectangle. It has some smaller parts sticking out from the sides. A larger section on the eastern side connects it to the parish house.
The Tower and Entrance
At the northern end of the church is a large square tower. It has strong corner supports called buttresses and a decorative top edge called a parapet. The front of the tower features a big stained glass window. Below this window, an extended entrance area sticks out.
Building Materials and Art
The church is built from rough-faced Quincy granite. Its decorative parts are made from light-colored sandstone from Nova Scotia. Inside, the church is richly decorated with Gothic designs. It has amazing wood carvings by Johannes Kirchmayer. There are also stone carvings by John Evans, a famous Welsh sculptor. The beautiful stained glass windows were created by Charles Jay Connick. Both Evans and Connick worked with architect Ralph Adams Cram on other projects.
A Masterpiece of Architecture
A historian named Douglass Shand Tucci once said that All Saints Church was a very important building in American architecture. He called it a "masterpiece" by architects Ralph Adams Cram and Bertram Goodhue. It became a model for how many parish churches were designed in America during the first half of the 20th century.
Church History
The All Saints parish started in 1867. It began as a mission from the nearby St. Mary's Church.
Building the Church
The first stone for the current church building was laid in November 1892. The congregation held its first services in the new church on December 27, 1893. Colonel Oliver Peabody, one of the founders of Kidder, Peabody & Co., helped pay for much of the construction. The church was mostly finished by 1929 when the side chapels were added.
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Images for kids
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Stained-Glass Window by Christopher Whall
