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All Saints Church is a Church of Ireland
Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating across the island of Ireland. Like other Anglican churches, it considers itself to be both Catholicism and Protestant Reformation....
 Parish Church
Parish church

A parish church, in Christianity, is the local church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopalian church governance churches....
, prominent on the Howth Road as it approaches the centre of Raheny
Raheny

Raheny is a northern suburb of Dublin, the capital city of Republic of Ireland. It is an old area, referenced back to 570 AD but after years of light settlement, with a main village and a coastal hamlet, grew rapidly in the 20th century, and is now a mid-density Northside suburb with a village core....
, Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
. It lies in walled grounds with mature tree cover, just outside the village core, and is widely hailed as a fine architecural specimen.

Saints was built to replace the historic St. Assam's Church
St. Assam's Church

St. Assam's is the name of two historic churches in the village of Raheny, Dublin, one a picturesque ruin in the middle of the village, one the structurally sound but no longer primary church built for the local Roman Catholic community of the area after the revival of religious rights....
 in the centre of Raheny village. The new church was sponsored (to the tune of 9,000 pounds in the 1880s) by Edmund Arthur Guinness, designed by George Ashlin and built almost entirely of Irish materials.






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All Saints Church is a Church of Ireland
Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland is an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion, operating across the island of Ireland. Like other Anglican churches, it considers itself to be both Catholicism and Protestant Reformation....
 Parish Church
Parish church

A parish church, in Christianity, is the local church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopalian church governance churches....
, prominent on the Howth Road as it approaches the centre of Raheny
Raheny

Raheny is a northern suburb of Dublin, the capital city of Republic of Ireland. It is an old area, referenced back to 570 AD but after years of light settlement, with a main village and a coastal hamlet, grew rapidly in the 20th century, and is now a mid-density Northside suburb with a village core....
, Dublin
Dublin

Dublin is both the largest city and capital of Republic of Ireland. It is located near the midpoint of Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey and at the centre of the Dublin Region....
. It lies in walled grounds with mature tree cover, just outside the village core, and is widely hailed as a fine architecural specimen.

History

All Saints was built to replace the historic St. Assam's Church
St. Assam's Church

St. Assam's is the name of two historic churches in the village of Raheny, Dublin, one a picturesque ruin in the middle of the village, one the structurally sound but no longer primary church built for the local Roman Catholic community of the area after the revival of religious rights....
 in the centre of Raheny village. The new church was sponsored (to the tune of 9,000 pounds in the 1880s) by Edmund Arthur Guinness, designed by George Ashlin and built almost entirely of Irish materials. The style is described as "early English", and the building has a cruciform shape. The walls are of granite, with limestone dressings, and there is a substantial belfry, with an octagonal spire and a weathervane.

All Saints was built for the Church of Ireland Parish of Raheny, and became the parish's place of worship in 1889, although it could not take on its full role, or be fully consecrated, until the freehold of the land was acquired, many years later, following the dissolution of the St. Anne's Estate. The parish itself has since entered into a Union with the Parish of Coolock
Parish of Coolock (Church of Ireland)

The Parish of Coolock in the Church of Ireland was one of two successors to the ancient parish of that name, the other being the ongoing Parish of Coolock ....
, which has its own historic church, .

Adjacent to All Saints is the Johnson Hall, for community activities, a modern Rectory, replacing the original Rectory which stood on glebe lands across the Howth Road, and a well-preserved gate lodge, for the verger.

Sources

  • raheny.com (as at 29 May 2007)
  • Raheny, Dublin: 1990, Through countless ages: The story of the church and parish of All Saints, and the district of Raheny, Arthur Garrett


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