St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church (Montreal)

Parish_church
name=St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church


caption=St. John the Evangelist Church on President Kennedy Ave.
dedication=St. John the Evangelist
denomination=Anglican Church of Canada
tradition=Anglo-Catholic
diocese=Montreal
rector=The Rev. Keith Schmidt, S.S.C.
organistdom=Mr. Garth McPhee
website= [http://www.redroof.ca St. John the Evangelist]

St. John the Evangelist is a parish of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal in the Anglican Church of Canada, founded by Father Edmund Wood in 1861; its church is well known in Montreal as the "Red Roof Church", which is also the headquarter of St. Michael's Mission. Its orientation is Anglo-Catholic, and it is the only Anglican locale in Montreal to practise this tradition, known as High Church.

St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, commonly known as the "red roof church" is a fine example of Neo-Gothic building from the Victorian era. Established in 1861 as an Anglo-Catholic parish, it was, in the words of Karl Raudsepp, "the first Tractarian church in Canada and the first Anglican free seat church in Montreal".The old system of pew rents, which provided income for churches, was eschewed here with the idea that rich and poor should sit and worship together as equals before God. The present stone church building dates from 1878 and was designed by architect William Tutin Thomas in consultation with the Rev. Edmund Wood, Rector and founder of the parish.It follows strictly the guidelines of the Cambridge Ecclesiological Society "inspired by the churches built a decade earlier in the slums of London's East End by architect James Brooks... a style created especially for poor Anglo-Catholic parishes". The stone rood screen, in Decorated Gothic style, was designed by Henry Vaughan. The three stained glass windows in the west wall over the organ loft, from the glass works of J.C. Spence of Montreal, were originally in the parish's 1861 building. [http://www.quartierdesspectacles.com/en/quartier/lieux/fichelieu.asp?id=26]

The church is part of the Conseil du Patrimoine religieux du Québec. [http://www.patrimoine-religieux.qc.ca/en/organisme/mission.php]

The building has starred alongside Nick Nolte in the film Affliction, and in the Quebec sci-fi TV series 'Dans une galaxie pres de chez vous'. The building is located in downtown Montreal, nested within Université du Québec à Montréal buildings, and Quartier des Spectacles, at 137 President Kennedy Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H2X 3P6

ee also

* List of Anglo-Catholic Churches

External links

* [http://www.redroof.ca St. John the Evangelist] official site