All Saints Notting Hill | |
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Location | Talbot Road, Notting Hill |
Country | United Kingdom |
Denomination | Church of England |
Churchmanship | Anglo-Catholic |
Website | All Saints Notting Hill |
History | |
Founder(s) | Samuel Walker |
Dedication | All Saints |
Associated people | Walter Passmore |
Architecture | |
Heritage designation | Grade II* |
Designated | 29 July 1949 |
Architect(s) | William White, with Sir George Gilbert Scott |
Style | Gothic Revival |
Years built | 1861 |
Administration | |
Province | Canterbury |
Diocese | London |
Episcopal area | Kensington |
Archdeaconry | Kensington |
Deanery | Kensington and Chelsea |
Clergy | |
Priest(s) | Philip Corbett SSC |
Curate(s) | Bello Mahilum |
Laity | |
Reader(s) | Gladvin Allen |
All Saints Notting Hill is a Church of England parish church in Talbot Road, Notting Hill, London that is affiliated to the Anglo-Catholic Forward in Faith movement. [1] The church is built in a Victorian Gothic Revival style with striking polychromatic decoration. For heritage purposes the church is a Grade II* listed building. [2]
The building of All Saints' Church was begun in 1852 for the Reverend Dr Samuel Walker. Walker was a wealthy property speculator, one of several buying up land in the area that was then to be known as Kensington Park. [3]
The church was designed by architect William White, working with Sir George Gilbert Scott as to be the centrepiece of Walker's local property development, and a church without pew rents. [4]
Walker's property speculation in the area was a financial failure and he sold his interests to others speculating on property in the newly emerging area of Kensington Park. [5]
As a result, the church-building was left unfinished for a number of years during which time in some quarters it received the epthet "All-Sinners-in-the-Mud". [6]
All Saints was eventually completed in 1861 at a cost of £25,000, without its spire, [4] for the incumbency of Reverend John Light of Trinity College Dublin. [7]
The tower is 100 feet (30 m) high and is said to resemble the Medieval Gothic Belfry of Bruges, Belgium. [8]
All Saints suffered serious bomb damage in The Blitz of World War II, [9] along with neighbouring buildings including Pinehurst Court, at 1–9 Colville Gardens. The first bombs fell on 26 September 1940, and the church was hit again in March and June 1944. The Lady Chapel and the south transept chapel were destroyed. [4] Restoration work was completed in 1951. [10]
From 1931 to 1961 the vicar was the outgoing and gregarious Fr John Twisaday, who established the high church worship tradition at All Saints. The present vicar is Fr Philip Corbett SSC, who was inducted in 2019.
The chancel has paintings by Henry Holiday. [9] [11]
• Walter Passmore (1867–1946), a singer and actor best known for his comic baritone roles in Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, was a choirboy at All Saints. [12]
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