St Elizabeth's Chapel, Sudbury


  • Address: 440 Concord Rd
  • Vicinity: Plympton Rd
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

St Elizabeth's Chapel is a 20th century rough, stone chapel in Sudbury, MA. - AsNotedIn


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1912/00/00 Ralph Adams Cram Architect With no working plans for the construction of the chapel until it was practically finished, construction begins on a private, stone, Chapel of St Elizabeth of Hungary for the Cram family.
1913/00/00 Two local laborers, Christino Alberico and John Smith, split and installed stone for St Elizabeth's Chapel. All the stones came from field walls on the Cram estate.
1914/07/00 The little stone chapel of St Elizabeth of Hungary is completed just as World War I begins and is blessed by Father Powell, Superior of the Society of St John the Evangelist (aka The Cowley Fathers).
1922/02/00 Ralph Adams Cram Designer Cram spends his winter vacation in Spain, it is his first awareness of Spanish Gothic architecture. The retablo at St Elizabeth's is a 16th century Spanish triptych (3 paneled paintings on wood) brought back by the family from one of their trips to Spain.
1942/09/24 Ralph Adams Cram In Memoriam Ralph Adams Cram is buried at the St Elizabeth's Memorial Churchyard in Sudbury, MA. The head and footstones are of blue slate.
1943/00/00 Charles J Connick Artisan The original window over the front door is replaced by a stained glass Rose Window, a memorial gift by Betty Cram for her father and mother. It depicts the Nativity, the Annunciation, the Archangel Raphael and St Elizabeth of Hungary.

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Particulars for St Elizabeth's Chapel, Sudbury:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Historic Use Chapel
Building Type Church
Historic Use Graves, burials
Historic Use Religious Property
Building Attribute Stained Glass




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