As its name tells you, this church served a rural parish, outside the city that now surrounds it. It’s an active parish with a diverse congregation and a number of social activism programs.
It’s also the result of an unplanned collaboration between two of Canada’s greatest 19th-century architects, Thomas Fuller, who later designed Canada’s first parliament buildings, designed the original church in 1858; when it was gutted by fire in 1865, the rebuilding plans came from Henry Langley, a noted church architect, who kept most of the original features, including a plethora of gables and warm open-brick interior walls.
