St. Mary's Episcopal Church
- Architects
- Henry Vaughan Hartwell and Richardson
- Year
- 1888
- Style
- Tudor Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, at 14–16 Cushing Avenue in Dorchester, dates to 1888, built after the parish's original Bowdoin Street church burned down in 1887. Henry Vaughan, an English-trained architect, designed the new Tudor Revival building; Hartwell & Richardson matched his style in 1893 when they added the transepts and chancel. The parish itself goes back to 1847 and remains an active Episcopal congregation today.
the building
Stained glass collection. The church holds a notably high-quality set of stained glass windows, including work by Tiffany Studios and by Boston glassmaker Charles Jay Connick, giving a modest parish church museum-grade windows more typical of a cathedral.
the style
Vaughan designed the 1888 church in the Tudor Revival mode; when Hartwell & Richardson enlarged it five years later with transepts and a chancel, they deliberately matched his original style rather than introducing their own, so the building reads as a single consistent design despite two build campaigns.
More on Tudor Revivalthe architect
Henry Vaughan was an English architect who designed the original 1888 church. Hartwell and Richardson, the Boston firm that expanded the building in 1893, matched his Tudor Revival vocabulary for the addition.
significance
The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is also home to one of the oldest food pantries in the area.
nearby
- Shirley-Eustis House
- Congregation Adath Jeshurun
- Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Dearborn School
- Malcolm X Ella Little-Collins House
- Sarah Davidson Apartment Block