At St. Andrew’s by-the-Sea, a celebration of 150 years of service, song and salt air 24%
By Dan Tuohy22%
8/5/2026, 10:11:24 AM
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The historic chapel of St.
Andrew’s-by-the-Sea in Rye Beach, which held its first service exactly 150 years ago this month, is a visual feast — both inside and out.
The inside, with its great wooden trusses, is designed to look like a boat built upside down.
The outside is postcard perfect, a living time capsule, with arched brick windows and rough-hewn stone walls.
There's are Tiffany stained glass, tributes to poet Ogden Nash, and a rare “lych gate” — or roofed gateway — at the chapel’s entrance.
While the Episcopal summer chapel is open to people of any faith, St.
Andrew’s doors will be wide open this Saturday as they throw <u>a 150th celebration</u>.
There will be tours of the chapel and grounds, discussion of the architecture and famous visitors, a concert by the Portsmouth Brass Quintet, a food truck serving Texas-style barbecue, and a historic Concord Coach on loan from the <u>Abbot-Downing Historical Society</u>.
It is a time to celebrate, and to reflect, said Gary Fincke, a senior warden who has attended services at <u>St.
Andrew’s-by-the-Sea</u> for about three decades.
“It really is a special place right here by the ocean with a lot of history and a lot of care,” he said, “over 150 years of people who really valued this and have really have kept it and maintained it and made sure that it continues to flourish — not only for us now, but for future generations.”
The chapel is in the Gothic Revival style, inspired by English country parish churches.
It is typically open from the middle of June through Labor Day weekend.
“But we do have baptisms and we have funerals here, and we have weddings,” Fincke said after a Sunday service last month.
“And so that can also extend either into the fall or as early as in May. . . .
We really make it available to people whenever it might be of service to them.”
A stained glass window at St.
Andrew's by-the-Sea crafted in 1909 to honor Richard Hoffman, an internationally acclaimed pianist from England who served as an organist and choirmaster for the chapel.
The window emits a warm glow with morning sunlight and can be seen from the brick walkway and lych gate — a traditional roofed gateway, the use of which dates back to medieval times.
A lych gate’s historical purpose was to shelter a coffin and the funeral bearers awaiting a burial, and otherwise demarcate the entrance to a churchyard.
The newest improvement on the grounds is a pavilion to support receptions and gatherings after services or events.
“That actually gives us a space for our hospitality after church Sundays, where people can come and gather,” Fincke said.
“We've had tents here before and challenges with that.
So now we have a permanent structure, which is also very helpful for weddings and for baptisms and inclement weather, where they have a place to meet just before coming into the church, which oftentimes, especially with weddings, that's particularly helpful.”
A few minutes after Fincke was speaking about weddings, a couple that got married at the chapel about 15 years ago happened to walk in the door.
Cindy and John Conrad of Dover said they come back to the chapel every year on their anniversary.
And they bring their kids.
“It was wonderful,” John said when asked about their ceremony.
“Magical,” Cindy said.
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