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St. Stephen's Memorial Episcopal Church is parish of the
Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is one of the nine original dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. History Massachusetts was founded by Puritans who did not accept such aspects of the Church of England as bish ...
in
Lynn, Massachusetts Lynn is the eighth-largest municipality in Massachusetts and the largest city in Essex County. Situated on the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Boston city line at Suffolk Downs, Lynn is part of Greater Boston's urban inner core. Settled by E ...
founded in 1844. It is noted for its historic
church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...
at 74 South Common Street. Completed in 1881, the church is of a Romanesque Revival design by
Ware & Van Brunt Henry Van Brunt FAIA (September 5, 1832 – April 8, 1903) was a 19th-century United States, American architect and architectural writer. Life and work Van Brunt was born in Boston in 1832 to Gershom Jacques Van Brunt and Elizabeth Price Brad ...
. It was built as a memorial to the children of Enoch Reddington Mudge of
Swampscott Swampscott () is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, located up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population was 15,111 as of the 2020 United States Census. A former summer resort on Massachusetts Ba ...
, member of a leading Lynn family. It was built of granite quarried from Mudge's Swampscott estate, and trimmed with red brick and stone. The interior is richly decorated, with parquet and mosaic floors, carved timber ends, and a number of stained glass windows. The church was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
as St. Stephen's Memorial Church on September 7, 1979, and included in the
Lynn Common Historic District The Lynn Common Historic District encompasses the town common of Lynn, Massachusetts and the surrounding buildings which face it. Although its establishment dates to the late 17th century, the area's time of development is predominantly in the ...
in 1992.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Lynn, Massachusetts This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lynn, Massachusetts. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lynn, Massachusetts, United State ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, Massachusetts This list is of that portion of the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) designated in Essex County, Massachusetts. The locations of these properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may b ...


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* Episcopal church buildings in Massachusetts Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Massachusetts Churches in Essex County, Massachusetts National Register of Historic Places in Lynn, Massachusetts Historic district contributing properties in Massachusetts Churches completed in 1881 Romanesque Revival architecture in Massachusetts Religious organizations established in 1844 {{Massachusetts-church-stub