All Saints Anglican Church (monument)
All Saints Anglican Church—Iglesia Anglicana de Todos los Santos—is the first Anglican church built in the Canary Islands, and it anchors the story of a small British community that took root in Puerto de la Cruz. Before the church existed, Anglican worship met every Sunday in the home of Peter Spence Reid, the British Vice-Consul, who was a Presbyterian and Church of Scotland member. In 1887, Reid founded the Taoro Company, and that same year it designated free land for an Anglican church; later that November, Rt Revd Ernest Graham Ingham, Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Sierra Leone, visited and formed a building committee. The church opened in 1890, built in Gothic Revival style with donations from foreign visitors and British residents. Its organ, pulpit, stained glass, and baptismal font were all privately gifted, including stained glass windows connected to Mary Boreham, widow of Walter Long Boreham, who died in 1890. …
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