All Souls Church | |
Location: | 196 Elm Street, Braintree, Massachusetts |
Coordinates: | 42.2231°N -71.0006°W |
Built: | 1904 |
Architect: | Edwin J. Lewis Jr. |
Architecture: | English Revival |
Added: | July 7, 2015 |
Refnum: | 15000389 |
All Souls Church, also known as All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church of Braintree, is a church on the National Register of Historic Places, it is located at 196 Elm Street in Braintree, Massachusetts. The building is a large fieldstone structure, in a cruciform plan with a square tower that has a crenellated top. The gable ends are decorated with bargeboard, and the entrance is set under a gabled entry porch below a large window with Gothic tracery. The church was designed by Boston architect Edwin J. Lewis Jr. and built in 1905 for a congregation organized in 1900; it is Braintree's first stone church building. Land for the building was donated by George O. Wales, a leading force in uniting Braintree's Unitarian and Universalist congregations.[1]
The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.