All Saints, Brookline, was one of the first churches of large size which was designed by the then firm of Cram, Wentworth and Goodhue, and it is therefore one of the structures which commands the most enduring interest and affection on the part of the successors of that firm. Laid out on the most ambitious and comprehensive lines as the result of the vision and forethought of Dr. Addison, it stood for very long in an incomplete condition, showing little of its architectural possibilities. Slowly additions were made: the West Transept (sic), the Parish House and the Rectory, but the church itself, apart from the first transept (sic), could not develop along the lines originally conceived, until recently, when, once more directed by the same vision and the enthusiasm that had marked Dr. Addison's inception of the project, the work has been continued, and at last the East Transept (sic), and above all the permanent choir, have been brought to a state of completion. In addition, much has been done in the Nave of the church in a way of various details of finish, so that now the interior at least, and in a measure the exterior, reveal in permanent and material form the conception of almost a generation ago. |
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The Finished Exterior From Dean Road (Drawing - Cram and Ferguson - 1926) |
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Interior View of Finished Chancel and East Transept (Drawing - Cram and Ferguson - 1926) |
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cvbcvb There are many things that still need to be accomplished. The great tower, which completes the exterior architectural effect, still remains a dream and a hope. Certain of the windows still lack their stone tracery, and therefore, of course, their permanent memorial glass, but these things will come, as have come the recent additions, and it is now possible for the architects to anticipate even during their lifetime the full fruition of one of their earliest visions which played so vital a part in forwarding the work of recreating worthy ecclesiastical architecture in a new land and under new conditions, but as an expression of an ancient religion which in its essentials can never change. |
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