All Saints' Church, Denstone

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All Saints’ Church, Denstone
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All Saints’ Church, Denstone
All Saints' Church, Denstone
52°57′55.01″N1°51′7.08″W / 52.9652806°N 1.8519667°W / 52.9652806; -1.8519667 Coordinates: 52°57′55.01″N1°51′7.08″W / 52.9652806°N 1.8519667°W / 52.9652806; -1.8519667
Location Denstone, Staffordshire
Country England
Denomination Church of England
History
Dedication All Saints
Architecture
Heritage designation Grade II* listed
Architect(s) George Edmund Street
Style Middle Pointed Gothic
Groundbreaking 1860
Completed1862
Administration
Diocese Diocese of Lichfield
Archdeaconry Stoke-on-Trent
Deanery Uttoxeter
Parish Denstone

All Saints' Church, Denstone is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Denstone. [1]

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History

The church was built between 1860 and 1862 to designs of the architect George Edmund Street, funded by Sir Thomas Percival Heywood, 2nd Baronet. At the same time, Street also designed the lychgate, churchyard cross, vicarage and village school.

Fittings

The font on four marble columns is by Street, with carvings of four angels on each corner holding reversed jars to symbolise the four Rivers of Paradise by Thomas Earp.

The pulpit, chandeliers and wrought-iron screen are also by Street. There is stained glass by Clayton and Bell.

Organ

The church has an organ which originally was built by Nicholson & Son in 1868 with the organ case by G. E. Street. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register. [2]

Churchyard

The churchyard contains the war grave of a Colonel Bertram of the Manchester Regiment of World War I. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ The Buildings of England. Staffordshire. Nikolaus Pevsner. p.113. ISBN   0140710469
  2. ↑ "NPOR [K00726]". National Pipe Organ Register . British Institute of Organ Studies . Retrieved 29 December 2014.
  3. ↑ [ permanent dead link ] CWGC Casualty record.
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