All Saints Church - The Old Parish House

I recently bumped into the All Saints, Sexton, Don. He told me he was going up to the Old Parish House to prepare it and the rectory for a new rector whose arrival was imminent. I told him I'd never seen the inside of the Old Parish House and he invited me to join him.

Around 1904 a small fieldstone parish house was built on a rocky rise behind the rectory. Designed in the Arts and Crafts style and completed in 1904, it was constructed almost entirely by parish women, an almost unheard-of thing at the time (see picture). The hall has walls of undressed fieldstone, a split entrance door in the Dutch manner and a fieldstone fireplace.

Thanks Don.