All Saints' Anglican Church Rome: Roof Restoration

A brief note to the friends around the world of All Saints' Anglican Church in Rome.

Our roof at All Saints' Rome has significant faults. We had hoped to wait until 2025/26 to begin to address these repairs but the North Aisle of the Church and the Lady Chapel are now leaking significantly in such a way as they imperil our electrical circuit board and our treasured Vincenzo Mascioni organ which are on the north side. These are presently being protected by plastic in times of rain and storm but the repairs are now exceedingly urgent. We have received an estimate of 77,000 Euros for a long lasting repair/replacement of the external roof coverings and the guttering on the North Aisle. The South Aisle will eventually need addressing as well (a smaller area of repair) and it would be good (and possibly economical) to do the two at the same time, but for the moment we will need to concentrate on repairing the North Aisle only.

Of the 77,000 Euros we will require we presently have collected +- 62,000 Euros which leaves us with 15,000 Euros remaining to be found in the next month. We have one donor who is willing to match all new gifts of a thousand euros (1465 CDN, 847 GBP or 1071 USD) or more (received between now and the 2nd week of September) on a fifty percent basis (with a maximum donation on the donor's part of 10,000 euros).

A healthy response to this offer will bring us very close to achieving our goal. I have to believe that it is possible for us to raise the remaining 15,000 euros and I commend this situation to you for both prayers and consideration. Many of you who read this note will have been members of All Saints', frequent visitors or friends who are now living elsewhere. You will know that our ministry here at All Saints' remains lively, inclusive and effective and that we have intersected with the lives of many hundred of people in the last decades.

All Saints' church is a unique testimony of Victorian church architecture in Europe, it was commissioned by Rome's large Anglo-American colony during the late stage of the Grand Tour. It is also one of George Edmund Street's masterpieces on the continent and despite it being a Gothic Revival church it was built with the altar as its centerpoint following the 19th century ritualistic revival. Its spire remains among the most iconic in Rome to the point that it once raised the attention of John XIII who would admire it from the Vatican!

If you have any questions, interesting ideas or if you think you are able to help us with a significant donation towards this work please feel free to contact the church office via email at - office at allsaintsrome dot org - to get our banking details or to contact the vicar privately.

Thank you for your consideration of the situation we find ourselves in at the present time.

Fr Robert Warren