Christ Church (Quincy, Massachusetts)

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Location 12 Quincy Ave., Quincy, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°14′43″N70°59′59″W / 42.24528°N 70.99972°W / 42.24528; -70.99972 Coordinates: 42°14′43″N70°59′59″W / 42.24528°N 70.99972°W / 42.24528; -70.99972
Built 1874
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Tudor Revival, Other
MPS Quincy MRA
NRHP reference # 89001369 [1]
Added to NRHP September 20, 1989

Christ Church is a historic church at 12 Quincy Avenue in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. [2] The parish first congregated for lay-led services in 1689, and officially formed in 1704. It is believed to be the oldest continuously active Episcopal parish in Massachusetts. [3] The building is a Tudor Revival structure constructed in 1874; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1] The Rev. Clifford Brown is the current rector.

Quincy, Massachusetts City in Massachusetts, United States

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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.

National Register of Historic Places federal and nsa list of historic sites in the United States

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Description and history

Christ Church is set at the northeast corner of Quincy and Elm Streets, south of Quincy's central business district. It is built out of local granite, with a steeply-pitched slate roof. The front-facing gable houses a large arched stained glass window, and the side walls have modest buttressing. Entry vestibules project to either side, in emulation of the English country churches its design recalls. A significant deviation from that style is the lack of a rounded apse; instead, that section of the church has a flat wall. A Tudor Revival parish house is attached to the rear. It is also built out of local granite, with heavy stone window sills and lintels and steep ridged roof gables. [4]

Apse Semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome

In architecture, an apse is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an exedra. In Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic Christian church architecture, the term is applied to a semi-circular or polygonal termination of the main building at the liturgical east end, regardless of the shape of the roof, which may be flat, sloping, domed, or hemispherical. Smaller apses may also be in other locations, especially shrines.

The parish was formally organized in 1704 by Rev. William Barclay, when the area was still part of Braintree, and built its first church on School Street in 1727 (at the site of the Christ Church Burial Ground. It built a second frame church at the present site in 1832 and a stone one in 1859, both of which were destroyed by fire. The present church was built in 1874, in an English Revival style that was then in vogue for Episcopal churches. [4]

Braintree, Massachusetts City in Massachusetts, United States

Braintree, officially the Town of Braintree, is a suburban New England city in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States. Although officially known as a town, Braintree adopted a municipal charter, effective 2008, with a mayor-council form of government, and is considered a city under Massachusetts law. The population was 35,744 at the 2010 census. The town is part of the Greater Boston area with access to the MBTA Red Line, and is a member of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council's South Shore Coalition. The first and current mayor of Braintree is Joe Sullivan.

Christ Church Burial Ground (Quincy, Massachusetts) cemetery in Quincy, Massachusetts

The Christ Church Burial Ground is a historic cemetery at 54-60 School Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is the cemetery of the Anglican Christ Church congregation, the second to be established in colonial Massachusetts. It is the site of the congregation's first church building, completed 1727, of which only a foundation element survives. The site's oldest grave marker is dated 1737; there may be older, unmarked graves. There are about 75 marked graves.

See also

List of Registered Historic Places in Quincy, Massachusetts

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Christ Church Quincy". 2009-10-21.
  3. ↑ http://www.christchurchquincy.org/about/history/
  4. 1 2 "NRHP nomination and MACRIS inventory record for Christ Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2015-09-03.
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