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About St. Paul's
St. Paul's is a family church located in Hopkinton, Mass, about 25 miles west of Boston. Our members come from many diverse faiths and backgrounds, and we enjoy that diversity.St. Paul's is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. While we are rich in the heritage and tradition of the Episcopal Church, our parish reflects today's world, respecting individual thought and reason as we follow a Christian path.
Mission
Vision
We are called to care for each other, for our community and for the world.
St. Paul's History
Excerpted from "A Brief History of Hopkinton", by Mrs. Frances A. Safford, 1915. Click here for a more detailed description.St. Paul's Episcopal church was established in 1745, by Rev. Roger Price, Rector of King's Chapel, Boston. He built a small edifice and endowed it with a glebe of 180 acres, situated on Cordaville Road, the most extensive gift of its kind to the church in this country.
The land is now of little value, some adjacent land inherited from Rev. Roger Price, has been sold to the State Forestry Department for $5.00 per acre.
This first church of St. Paul's society was blown down in the great gale of 1815.
After officiating here three or four years, Mr. Price returned to England and was succeeded by Rev. John Troutbeck.
Among the twenty members in 1752 appear the names of Sir Harry Frankland (who lived nearby) as a vestryman of St. Paul's and Lady Frankland (Agnes Surriage) who passed seven years in the parish and was constant in her devotion to the church, also Patrick, father of Daniel Shea.
In 1818, Bishop Griswold consecrated a new church, which was used until 1865 when it was burnt to the ground.
These earlier buildings stood near the site of the four room school building, corner of Main and Ash Streets.
Until 1892 there were services at rare intervals at various places, then for about six years in a small hall in Bridges block.
Through the influence and exertions of the Rector, Rev. Waldo Burnett, the present beautiful edifice was erected and dedicated in June, 1898 [ed. note: currently, the Hopkinton Library].
The land for this church, also for the building site for the public library was a gift from Mrs. Sarah E. Whitin, a granddaughter of Col. Joseph Valentine.
