Seasonal Chapels 2025

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Visit Our Seasonal Chapels this Summer


The Episcopal Church of New Hampshire has a long tradition of supporting seasonal chapels located in places of natural beauty and summer respite. These chapels— there are currently nine across the Granite State—are worship communities that offer Holy rest, contemplation, and spiritual refreshment.

If you are looking for a spiritual pilgrimage, and are up for exploring New Hampshire, consider attending services at our seasonal chapels. With a map and a plan, you can worship at all nine! To get you started, download the 2025 brochure from above. It includes a brief description of each of our chapels and a check list so you can keep track of your visits. Read the chapel descriptions below, including a list of nearby attractions suggested by our summer chapel leadership teams—make a day or a weekend of it!

Take your summer spiritual reflections back to your home church. Share them with your fellow worshipers during coffee hour! If you are successful in attending a service at all nine of our seasonal chapels this summer or over many summers, send your story and a photo or two to Shelli Gay, so we can share them in the fall. 

Church of the Transfiguration, Bretton Woods

Route 302, Bretton Woods (east of the entrance to the Mount Washington Hotel)
Services: 5 p.m. Saturdays in July and August
Contact: The Rev. Sinclair Ender

Dedicated in 1907, the Church of the Transfiguration was built in memory of Joseph Stickney, the builder of the adjacent Mount Washington Hotel. Crafted from gray granite, the building features magnificent stained glass windows by Tiffany and D. Maitland Armstrong. These depict the 12 disciples along the side walls, the Ascension in the back, and the Transfiguration as the altar piece.

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Explore the Mt. Washington Valley

Emmanuel Church, Dublin

924 Dublin Rd., Dublin, 603-563-8328
Services: 9 a.m. last Sunday in June through Labor Day
Contact: Senior Warden William Raymond, 603-563-8029

Emmanuel Church is a small, wooden, shingle-style center aisle church built in 1882 to serve the summer residents of Dublin and vicinity. It is one of two summer chapels in the state on the National Register of Historic Places. Pews seat approximately 120 people. Of special interest are the stained glass windows, some of which are original Tiffany stained glass. Emmanuel calls two priests-in-residence each summer (one in July, one in August) who reside in the adjacent rectory. The church has an organist and a small pipe organ.

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St. Timothy’s Chapel, Lost Nation/Lancaster

66 Lost Nation Road, Northumberland
Services/Events: July 6, 10 a.m. Morning Prayer followed by strawberry social; Oct. 19 10 a.m. Morning Prayer followed by autumn apple crisp social; December (date TBD) 4 p.m. Lessons and Carols
Contact: The Rev. Tim Brooks, 603-586-1845

St. Timothy’s Chapel is operated by St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Lancaster. St. Timothy’s Chapel was built by the families of “Lost Nation” neighborhood on the outskirts of Lancaster and completed in 1893. It remains a simple country church today, with a woodstove for heat, and no electricity or plumbing.

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St. Francis Chapel, Marlborough

Kershaw Avenue at Stone Pond
Services: 9 a.m. Sundays in July and August
Contact: The Rev. Maria Tjelveit, 484-619-5431

The Chapel of St. Francis among the trees at Stone Pond, Marlborough was built in 1926 by Mr. and Mrs. Francis Kershaw, who lived in the large red house at the edge of the pond. Mr. Kershaw designed the chapel from “peasant chapels” he had seen in Europe. The bell was given in 1929, hung in a belfry and rung for daily services for some years; after the belfry had to be removed, it was installed in the present stone arch in 1979. A large carved wooden crucifix hangs on the outside wall of the north side of the chapel, reminiscent of the wayside shrines on the mountains of Europe.

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Old Saint Andrew’s, New London

1766 King Hill Rd., New London
Services: 8 a.m. from Father’s Day through Labor Day
Contact: 603-526-6344, office@standrewsnl.org

When railroads brought an influx of wealthy summer visitors to Lake Sunapee, Episcopal services in New London were held in a schoolhouse near the lake’s eastern shore for 22 years. Old Saint Andrews, designed in the Gothic Revival style with charming Adirondack touches, was consecrated in 1909. A modern church was built in town in 1964 and now Old Saint Andrews hosts the St. Andrew’s community on summer Sundays.

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St. Andrew’s By the Sea, Rye Beach

30 Church Rd., Rye Beach
Services: 8 and 10 a.m. from the fourth Sunday in June through Labor Day
Contact: Vicar, the Rev. David Holroyd

St. Andrew’s-by-the-Sea is only steps away from the ocean, right off Ocean Boulevard in Rye Beach. It is one of two summer chapels in the state on the National Register of Historic Places. The building was completed in 1877. The architecture and lych gate for carriages were inspired by English country churches. St. Andrew’s takes an active role in its Seacoast community and beyond by being supporters of organizations focused on the needs of vulnerable children and families struggling with homelessness, hunger, domestic violence, and abuse. The chapel also hosts a summer concert series and an annual Christmas event, Candlelight Caroling.

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St. Matthew’s Chapel, Sugar Hill

Rt. 117 and Birches Rd.
Services: 10 a.m. from the first Sunday in July through Labor Day
Contact: info@stmatthewsnh.org

Widely known as the most photographed church in New England, St. Matthew’s is noted for its simple, dignified architecture. The white-shingled exterior, set among fields of lupine in June and brilliant foliage in autumn, hints subtly at the rustic character of the interior. Three of the four beautiful stained glass windows gracing the chapel today came from a church in Cold Springs Harbor, New York, where they had been given by the Cammann-Lipson family.

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St. James Church, Sunapee

378 Lake Ave., Sunapee
Services: 9:30 a.m. last Sunday in June through Labor Day
Contact: Warden Cynthia Canaday, 203-219-3517

St. James is a beautiful stone chapel that seats about 100 people. It was built by the hands of a single man in 1898 and is decorated with lovely stained glass windows and brass memorial plaques. The singing of the congregation is enhanced by the melodious music of a 1919 Estey pump organ. Visiting clergy enjoy the lakeside rectory for two weeks with family and friends.

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Chapel of the Transfiguration, Whitefield

28 Elm St., Whitefield
Services: 9 a.m., from the first Sunday in July to the last Sunday in August
Contact: G. Christopher Smith

The present chapel, built in 1901, is a plain meeting house with an exterior of white clapboard with burgundy trim and interior sheathed in North Carolina Pine stained brown. The painting of the Transfiguration above the altar was done by the Rev. Thomas S. Kline, who conducted services for 23 summers. The triptych which frames the painting was the work of Shepard Vogelgesang and his sister Zenaide Bradley. Services have been continuous in this mission since 1895.

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