| All Saints' Sandy Hill | |
| Location | 317 Chapel St Ottawa, Ontario K1N 7Z2 |
|---|---|
| Country | Canada |
| Denomination | Anglican Church of Canada |
| Website | Parish homepage |
| 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 |
| Clergy | |
| Bishop(s) | The Right Rev. John Chapman |
| Rector | The Reverend Rhondda MacKay |
| Laity | |
| Director of music | Sara Brooks |
All Saints Anglican Church is an Anglican church in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
The Anglican Diocese of Ottawa was only two-years-old when on the 15th of April, 1898, Mr Henry Newell Bate (Chairman of the Ottawa Improvement Commission) asked Bishop Charles Hamilton to form a new parish in Ottawa. By the 24th of June, all of the necessary preparations had been made. Bate laid the first stone himself on the 2nd of April, 1899. The chief cornerstone was laid by the Bishop on the 7th of June that same year. The first services were held in the church on the 4th of February 1900. 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 1st of 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 the 21st of January.
The church, which was designed by Alfred M. Calderon, is of Gothic revival design. The church features a crenellated tower with a nine-bell chime, and no fewer than fourteen stained glass windows. ommemorated 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 in honour of the church’s founder. The church also held the state funeral for Sir Robert Borden, in 1937.[1]