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

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.

St. Mary's Catholic Church
LocationWinchester, Massachusetts
Coordinates42°27′15″N 71°7′57″W
Built1876
ArchitectFord, Patrick W.
Architectural styleGothic Revival
MPSWinchester MRA
NRHP reference No.89000625 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 5, 1989

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.[2] The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989,[1] reflecting the church's important role in the local Irish Catholic community.[2]

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See also

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "NRHP nomination for St. Mary's Catholic Church". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-03-17.
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