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St. Mary's Catholic Church (Winchester, Massachusetts)

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Built
  
1876

NRHP Reference #
  
89000625

Area
  
2,024 m²

Added to NRHP
  
5 July 1989

MPS
  
Winchester MRA

Opened
  
1876

Phone
  
+1 781-729-0055

Architect
  
St. Mary's Catholic Church (Winchester, Massachusetts)

Address
  
158 Washington St, Winchester, MA 01890, USA

Architectural style
  
Gothic Revival architecture

Similar
  
Sacred Heart Church, St Charles Borromeo Church, St Mary's Roman Catholic, St John the Evangelis, St Aidan's Church

Profiles

St. Mary's Catholic Church is a historic church at 159 Washington Street in Winchester, Massachusetts. The church is part of St Mary's Parish, which includes St Mary's School. Both are part of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

Architecture and history

St. Mary's is located at the southeast corner of Washington and Bridge Streets, just northeast of Winchester center. The church building was built in 1876, replacing Winchester's first Roman Catholic place of worship, a chapel built on the same site in 1874. The area was at the time a center of a growing Irish-American population. Originally clad in wood, this church underwent major renovations in 1897 under the direction of architect Patrick W. Ford, a noted area designer of churches, at which time it was clad in brick. In plan it resembles older Federal period New England churches, with the nave set parallel to the roof gable. The building is richly decorated, with corbelled cornices and decorative buttresses. The square tower is offset at the northwestern corner, with a Gothic-arched entrance and a belfry with louvered pairs of Gothic-arched openings. A small baptistry and meeting, added c. 1900 to originally house a library, stands just south of the main building. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989, reflecting the church's important role in the local Irish Catholic community.

References

St. Mary's Catholic Church (Winchester, Massachusetts) Wikipedia


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