All Saints Anglican Church (Ottawa)

All Saints' Sandy Hill
45°25′38″N 75°40′40″W / 45.42722°N 75.67778°WCoordinates: 45°25′38″N 75°40′40″W / 45.42722°N 75.67778°W
Location	317 Chapel St Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7Z2
Country	Canada
Denomination	Anglican Church of Canada
Website	"All Saints' Church, Sandy Hill, Anglican Diocese of Ottawa, Canada". Archived from the original on June 7, 2008. Retrieved August 23, 2016.
History
Founded	February 4, 1900
Consecrated	1914-02-01
Architecture
Architect(s)	Alfred M. Calderon
Style	Gothic revival
Groundbreaking	1899-04-02
Specifications
Number of spires	1
Administration
Diocese	Anglican Diocese of Ottawa
Province	Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario
Ontario Heritage Act
Official name	All Saints' Anglican Church[1]

All Saints Sandy Hill is a former Anglican church in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The building was sold in 2015 and is slated to become a community hub for the neighbourhood.

History

The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa was only two-years-old when on 15 April 1898, Mr Henry Newell Bate (Chairman of the Ottawa Improvement Commission) asked Bishop Charles Hamilton to form a new parish in Ottawa. By 24 June, all of the necessary preparations had been made. Bate laid the first stone himself on 2 April 1899. The chief cornerstone was laid by the Bishop on 7 June that same year. The first services were held in the church on 4 February 1900.^[2] The first Rector of All Saints’ was the Reverend A. W. Mackay, the former Curate of the old Saint John’s Anglican Church, which was on Sussex Street where the Connaught Building stands today. He held this post until his death in August 1919.

The church, however, was not consecrated until the 1 February 1914. This was done following the decision by (now Sir) Henry Bate to give the church and land to the Rector and his wardens as a gift on 21 January.

The church at Chapel Street at Laurier Avenue, which was designed 1898-99 by Alfred Merigon Calderon, is of Gothic revival design.^[3] The church features a crenellated tower with a nine-bell chime, and no fewer than fourteen stained glass windows. Commemorated by memorial windows, are MacKay, Sir Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister from 1911 to 1920, and several other former members of the congregation. In 1934, Bate Memorial Hall was added by Thomas Cameron Bate (son of Sir Henry Bate) in honour of the church’s founder. The church also held the state funeral for Sir Robert Borden, in 1937.^[4]

In 2014, the church community merged with St. Margaret's Anglican Church, Vanier, and the historic building was put up for sale. The site was purchased in December 2015 by All Saints Development Inc., who plan to turn the site into a community hub containing a wedding venue, a conference centre, and other amenities.^[5] The space will also be an interpretive centre for Prime Minister's Row, an improvement initiative for the historical neighbourhood.^[6][7]

References

• Jefferson, Robert; Johnson, Leonard L (1957). Faith of our fathers : the story of the Diocese of Ottawa. Ottawa: Anglican Book Society. OCLC 12399158. Also OCLC 61650651.
• C.H. Little, All Saints Church (Sandy Hill), a short history 1898-1975 (Ottawa, Anglican Book Society) 365.L.07.1

1. "Property name: All Saints' Anglican Church". Ontario's Places of Worship. Ontario Heritage Trust. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
2. ["All Saints' Church, Ottawa : your church" by All Saints' Church (Ottawa, Ont.) Call Number 365.O.15.1]
3. Alfred Merigon Calderon
4. "Thousands Join in Sorrowful Tribute to Late Sir Robert Borden". Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa ON. 14 June 1937. p. 9. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
5. Robinson, Alex. "Group to repurpose Sandy Hill church as community space". Ottawa Community News (22 December 2015). Retrieved 9 February 2016.
6. Spears, Tom (20 December 2015). "All Saints Anglican Church sold for community use". Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
7. "Home". Prime Minister's Row.

External links

• "All Saints' Church, Sandy Hill, Anglican Diocese of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada". Archived from the original on June 7, 2008. Retrieved August 23, 2016.