St. Martin's Church is a historic

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church at 50 Orchard Avenue in

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. It is located next door to Temple Beth-El, a Reform Synagogue. The congregation was established in 1885 and the

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church building was constructed in 1917 to a design by

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to replace an earlier wooden building. It is a granite structure with a squat square three-stage tower at its southeast corner. The parish house, attached to the main building's northeast corner, is a Tudor Revival structure added in 1925. The church was added to the

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in 1996.

Stained glass window

The church features a

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window scene of namesake St. Martin cutting off half of his cloak to give to a beggar. The windows of the church were designed by

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window designer

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and his wife, Mary, and installed in 1919. A restoration of the windows was undertaken by an Attleboro studio
New England Stained Glass
during the winter of 2014–2015. The entire window was removed from the wall, then individual pieces were removed, cleaned, reassembled, and re-leaded onto new metal frames.

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Stained glass window

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