All Saints Church is an historic

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church located at 51 Concord Street in

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, in the

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. Completed in 1914, it is a completely realized example of an English country church as interpreted by the architect

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. On December 1, 1980, it was added to the

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Description

All Saints Church is located north of Peterborough's commercial downtown, on the east side of Concord Street (

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). It is a modest single-story structure, built out of locally quarried granite. It is basically cruciform in plan, its symmetry affected only by a small chapel extending from its southern transept. Its exterior is finished in rough ashlar stone. The main facade has a center entry set in a Gothic archway, with buttresses at the building corners. Set in the gable above the entrance is a round wagon-wheel stained glass window. A square tower rises above the crossing point of the nave and transepts, with peaked louvered belfry openings on either side of the nave's steeply pitched gable roof.

History

All Saints Church was organized as a mission in 1904 and became a parish in 1914. In 1912, architect

began design work for a church building in the

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and

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styles. One of his models was St. Mary the Virgin Church in

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. Since Cram's commission was from an individual donor, Mary Lyon Cheney Schofield, rather than from a church body, he was not required to make the artistic compromises that might otherwise have been required. The church has been called "one of the most satisfying works of one of America's more important architects." The

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windows were designed by

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, The first service in the new church was on August 8, 1920.All Saints Church website
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Current use

All Saints' Church is an active parish in the Monadnock Deanery of the

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. The Rev. Dr. Jennifer L. Walters is the current Rector.

References

External links

All Saints Church website

St. Mary's Iffley website

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