'A Rich Past, A Promising Future'
'A Rich Past, A Promising Future'
SAC Christmas Holiday Market
St. Alban's Centre will be alive with over a dozen vendor tables covering such Christmas staples as stuffed animals, crafted ornaments, soap and candles, wreaths, handmade birdhouses, jewelry, natural décor, toys, and knitted items.
We will have Christmas trees for sale, too!
There will be a special sale at our used book store, hot Christmas chocolate drinks, local home-baked goods and much good cheer!
LIVE MUSIC INSIDE
and Christmas favourites will be heard outside!
A professional photographer will be on duty to take pictures with kids
and pets with our Santa!
ALSO:
Many special items and offerings including Escape Room gift certificates, Hallowed Grounds coffee specials, a great supply of vintage finds in the newly updated SAC Garage. Stay tuned. Mark that calendar!
Send a Christmas letter to Santa!
Canada Post will pick up Letters to Santa from our mailbox.
And Santa will make an appearance at our Christmas Holiday Market
on November 30th for pictures with your kids, grandkids or pets!
BOOKS, MUSIC, VIDEOS
HALLOWED GROUNDS CAFE
HALLOWED GROUNDS CAFE
Explore our extensive used books and music collection, including both vintage and newer vinyl LPs and a wide range of CDs.
Also videos and rare collections that are perfect for the cottage, RV or rec room! Housed in the Rectory and now open again every weekend.
Donations of books and records are gratefully received.
HALLOWED GROUNDS CAFE
HALLOWED GROUNDS CAFE
HALLOWED GROUNDS CAFE
The Cafe will be open on warm weekends into October -- watch for our road signs. With cool or inclement weather, the Cafe will move inside the Rectory book store.
In 2025 we'll be back to the full weekend schedule. Thanks to all patrons in 2024!
ESCAPE ST. ALBAN'S
HALLOWED GROUNDS CAFE
ESCAPE ST. ALBAN'S
THE GREAT BATH BANK HEIST
In 1945 the village of Bath (pop. 300) became the site of the biggest bank robbery in Canadian history. Armed thieves escaped police and may have stashed the stolen loot in a historic church in nearby Adolphustown. Can you find it?
RESTORATION
TOURS & BOOKS
ESCAPE ST. ALBAN'S
Thanks to generous support from the community, tower masonry repairs are now complete and other projects are progressing well. Thank you and stay tuned!
TOURS & BOOKS
TOURS & BOOKS
TOURS & BOOKS
Learn about the unique windows of St. Alban's from local writers, and tour the church, built as a memorial to the United Empire Loyalists who founded Upper Canada (today's Province of Ontario). Tours run Saturday & Sunday through the Fall. High-quality picture books on the unique tiles and windows are for sale at St. Alban's Centre and online.
WEDDINGS
TOURS & BOOKS
TOURS & BOOKS
St. Alban’s has been a wedding venue for over 134 years. Planning a wedding and seeking a special space for your ceremony? We would be happy if you would consider St. Alban's.
OUR HISTORY
The first service at the newly built St. Alban the Martyr UEL Memorial Church was held in 1890. For almost 130 years, the congregation took pride in their familial and neighbourly connections to and association with the original United Empire Loyalists who carved Adolphustown farms and adjacent township lands out of virgin forest to build and sustain the region; local leaders from Loyalist stock and their neighbours here were vitally involved in the creation, and legal, political and social culture of Upper Canada, and later, the Dominion of Canada.
In 2018, St. Alban’s closed its doors as an Anglican Church, which led a group of community members to create our group, the Friends of St. Alban’s, to ensure repairs and maintenance keep our historic and beautiful church in sustainable shape. In 2020, Friends of St. Alban’s became a registered charity and we now lease the church and Rectory while purchase arrangements are being finalized.
Our vision is to preserve this beautiful heritage Church building and its Rectory while returning it to its long role as a valued community centre and resource.
DONATE
We are dedicated to providing our community with a diverse set of people-focussed activities in the setting of the architecturally unique, re-purposed St. Alban’s Church. Your contribution today will help achieve this community-oriented vision. Thank you for your support.