All Saints Notting Hill

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All Saints Notting Hill
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All Saints Notting Hill
LocationTalbot 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*
Designated29 July 1949
Architect(s) William White, with Sir George Gilbert Scott
Style Gothic Revival
Years built1861
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. It is a Victorian Gothic Revival stone building with polychromatic decoration. All Saints' is a Grade II* listed building. [1]

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History

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. [2]

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. [3]

Engraving of William White's design for All Saints, complete with spire All saints church 1.jpg
Engraving of William White's design for All Saints, complete with spire

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. [4]

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". [5]

All Saints was eventually completed in 1861 at a cost of £25,000, without its spire, [3] for the incumbency of Reverend John Light of Trinity College Dublin. [6]

The tower is 100 feet (30 m) high and is said to resemble the Medieval Gothic Belfry of Bruges, Belgium. [7]

All Saints suffered serious bomb damage in The Blitz of World War II, [8] 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. [3] Restoration work was completed in 1951. [9]

Clergy

From 1931 to 1961 the vicar was the flamboyant 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. All Saints' parish is part of the Anglo-Catholic Forward in Faith movement. [10]

Vicars

Decoration and fittings

The chancel has paintings by Henry Holiday. [8] [11]

Notable parishioners

• 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]

Organs and Organists

Organs

1866: interior looking east with the organ briefly glimpsed in the south aisle. All-saints-church.jpg
1866: interior looking east with the organ briefly glimpsed in the south aisle.
The north transept of All Saints', Notting Hill, was designed by Mr. White, specially for the reception of the organ, and with this end in view he fenestrated it with a large traceried rose placed high up in the wall [...] the authorities caused the organ to be placed in the south transept, thus completely blocking up a very beautiful four-light window. The effect of the opposite transept, with the blank wall space left perfectly bare, is very unpleasing. [...] The organ in question, by Gray and Davison, occupies an elevated position, and has the somewhat unusual appendage (for a modern instrument) of a choir organ. [14]

Organists

Assistant Organists

  • 1877-79 Henry William Richards (16 April 1865, Notting Hill) - 4 January 1956. Reading). Mus.D. (Dunelm, 1903), Hon.R.A.M., Hon.R.C.M., F.R.C.O. [18]
  • September 1959 Assistant organist post advertised at £40 p.a. [28]

Notes

The west tower in 2011 All Saints Church Tower, Notting Hill - London.jpg
The west tower in 2011
  1. ↑ Historic England. "All Saints Church (Grade II*) (1080701)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  2. ↑ 'The Ladbroke estate: The 1850s. Land purchase and development by Blake and Dr. Walker, 1850–3'. Survey of London: Volume 37, Northern Kensington. 220-235. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1973. Online resource, accessed 29 October 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 Denny 1993 , p. 70
  4. ↑ 'The Ladbroke estate: Building boom and collapse in the early 1850's. Land purchase and development by Blake and Dr. Walker, 1850–3'. Survey of London: Volume 37, Northern Kensington. 220-235. Originally published by London County Council, London, 1973. Online resource, accessed 29 October 2023.
  5. ↑ Shepherd 1973, pp. 298–332.
  6. ↑ "All Saints' Church Notting Hill". The Illustrated London News . 8 September 1866. p. 245. Retrieved 20 February 2010.
  7. ↑ Mitton 2007, p. 97.
  8. 1 2 Pevsner 1952, p. 297.
  9. ↑ "History of All Saints". All Saints Notting Hill. Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  10. ↑ "Homepage". All Saints Notting Hill. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  11. ↑ Historic England. "All Saints Church, Clydesdale Road W11 (1080701)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 20 February 2010.
  12. ↑ Walters, Michael, ed. (1995). "Gilbertian Gossip". Gilbert and Sullivan Newsletter Archive. Department of Mathematics, Boise State University . Retrieved 20 February 2010.
  13. ↑ The National Pipe Organ Register: N17507
  14. ↑ T. Francis Bumpus London Churches: ancient and modern. (London: Bumpus, 1883) 128–129
  15. ↑ Frederick W. Thorsby Dictionary of Organs and Organists, 131 (London: G.A. Mate, 1921). Online resource, accessed 24 October 2023.
  16. ↑ 'Organ News' . Musical Opinion and Music Trade Review Jun 1902; 25, 297 p.671.
  17. ↑ National Pipe Organ Register: D03538. Online resource, accessed 23 October 2023.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 W. B. Henshaw Biographical Dictionary of the Organ, Bardon Music. Online resource, accessed 26 October 2023,
  19. ↑ A Dictionary of Organs and Organists Frederick W Thorsby (London : G.A. Mate, 1921) p.141
  20. ↑ 'Organist Choirmaster and Choir Appointments' The Musical Times 1905-08-01: Vol 46 no.750 p.539.
  21. ↑ Frederick W. Thorsby Dictionary of Organs and Organists, 309 (London: G.A. Mate, 1921). Online resource, accessed 24 October 2023.
  22. ↑ The Musical Times Vol. 98, No. 1377 (Nov., 1957), 640. Vol. 99, No. 1384 (Jun., 1958), 344.
  23. ↑ Jackson baronets, of Eagle House (1913)
  24. ↑ 'Sir Nicholas Fane St. George Jackson, 3rd Bt.' in Mosley, Charles (ed) Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage (Wilmington: Burke's Peerage, 2003)
  25. ↑ The Musical Times, Jan., 1975, Vol. 116, No. 1583 (Jan., 1975), 87
  26. ↑ UCL Singers concert programme, 21 March 2005. PDF. Online resource, accessed 23 October 2023.
  27. ↑ LinkedIn profile. Online resource, accessed 24 October 2023.
  28. ↑ The Musical Times, Vol. 100, No. 1399 (Sep., 1959), 494.

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