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The Anglican Church of All Saints

Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife North

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Stained glass windows

Sanctuary window
The window in the Sanctuary is believed to have been imported from America.

ALL SAINTS CHURCH, thanks to the vision of its founders, is fortunate to have a glorious collection of stained-glass windows.

The vivid colours of the West window highlight figures of the prophet, apostle and martyr and the wording from the early Christian hymn of praise, Te Deum, the title of which is taken from its opening Latin words, Te Deum laudamus, rendered as “Thee, O God, we praise”.

The two three-panel windows were brought over from America around the time the church was built. The church’s benefactor as far as the windows are concerned was Mary Boreham, an American who came to the island some time before 1890 with her terminally-ill husband, Walter, an English lawyer who had been struck down with tuberculosis.

This memorial stone for Walter Boreham was placed on the back wall of the church exterior during the construction work. It is directly beneath one of the stained-glass windows so generously donated by his widow, Mary.

Mary, maiden name Dabney, was the niece of a former US Consul to Tenerife, which is probably how she learned that the special climate that the Canaries enjoy might help in the treatment of her husband’s condition. The couple arrived in the Taoro Parque area during the building of the Grand Hotel Taoro, which had been designed to attract health tourists and gloried in the fact that its sanitary arrangements were “carried out by certificated English plumbers”.

Millennium window
One of the more modern windows added on the occasion of the Millennium, designed by a talented artist Damian Hughes who was living here at the time.

 

Sadly, Walter Boreham lost his battle with TB soon after their arrival at the age of 41. Mary, still a relatively young woman herself, threw herself into the ex-pat life of Puerto Orotava, as it was then, and became a generous benefactor to the British community. The Borehams had set up home in Finca San Antonio, modernising the house, landscaping the gardens and setting aside space for outdoor games such as tennis and croquet.

They had brought with them their prized possession – a magnificent collection of thousands of books, which was also to prove to be of great benefit to the British ex-pats when The English Library was established just a couple of hundred yards from the church.

Apart from the beautiful stained-glass windows, Mary also personally defrayed the cost of the parsonage erected behind the church. In return for her great generosity all she asked, being a Unitarian, was that all Christian denominations could use the church. When the first stone was laid it was written that the church was dedicated to the memory of Walter Boreham.

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August 2022 Newsletter

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Services & Events Schedule

SUNDAY:
11:00am – Sung Eucharist

WEDNESDAY:
10:00am – Holy Communion
11:15am – Bible Study & Prayer Group


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Contact Us – Who’s who

Chaplain:  Vacancy
tel: +34 605 48 67 92
email: allsaintsnorthtenerife@gmail.com
Assistant Priest:
The Revd Rachel Ganney
tel: +34 672 83 47 11 (WhatsApp)
email: rachel@ganney.net
Reader:
Peter Lockyer
tel: +34 922 37 03 28
email: allsaints@lynx3.eu
Congregational worship leader:
Judith Rigby
tel: +34 711042849
email: rigbyjudith59@gmail.com
Church Wardens:
Wendy Sanderson
tel: +34 922 32 09 78
Dawn Rutherford
email: dawnr30@hotmail.co.uk
Safeguarding officer:
Judith Rigby
tel: +34 711 04 28 49
email: safeguardingpuertotenerife@gmail.com
Hon Treasurer:
Cheryl Douglas
email: cheryl6921@hotmail.com
Chaplaincy Council Secretary:
Kath Delgado Cabrera
tel: +34 615 22 23 11
email: kath.delgadocabrera@gmail.com
Organist:
Rayco Gonzales
tel: +34 699 64 94 54
email: raycobrito@hotmail.com

LINKS TO KINDRED SITES

St Francis’ Anglican Church,
Tenerife South

La Palma Anglican Church

The English Library, Tenerife

The Friends of Tenerife

Ecumenical links

In der Anglikanischen Kirche in Puerto de la Cruz hält die Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Teneriffa Nord sonntags regelmäßig um 17 Uhr deutschsprachige Gottesdienste für ihre Mitglieder, Urlaubsgäste und interessierte Besucher.  Im Gemeindehaus hinter der Kirche befinden sich Gemeindebüro und Gemeinderäume. Hier und im dortigen Gartengelände wird bei vielerlei Gemeindeveranstaltungen ein geselliges Beisammensein gepflegt – Tel. 922 374 964.

OUR GERMAN Lutheran Brothers and Sisters also use the church for their Sunday Services and social events.  They have an office at the Parsonage and can be contacted by telephone on 922 374 964  Their office hours are displayed by the main door to the Parsonage.

We also have Ecumenical Links with the Scandinavian and Finnish churches in Puerto de la Cruz.

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