All Saints, Boyne Hill, Maidenhead - a George Edmund Street church and parochial buildings masterpiece
Church Close, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 4HE
All Saints is an early grade I listed neo-gothic church built in 1857 by G E Street as a Tractarian church with the 150ft tower and spire added in 1865 and an extension by his son Arthur in 1910. Street, was a contemporary of Pugin, Butterfield and Scott and is buried in Westminster Abbey, his most famous building being the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand, London. The church is of a collegiate style on one side of a grass quadrangle with the old vicarage, parish centre and church houses on the other three sides. It is built of red and black bricks with Bath stone.
Inside, the warm brick colours are maintained and expanded with the use of polychromatic horizontal lines in green, blue, red and yellow brick, tiles and marble in the chancel. Highly decorative.
You can see the font and pulpit by Thomas Earp, beautiful stained glass windows by John Hardman and William Wailes, as well as a 20th century window by Sir Ninian Comper, elaborate choir stall carvings, and mediaeval style stencilling, floor brasses and a wall painting by G E Street, not forgetting a connection to Inspector Morse.
The churchyard contains graves designed by Street for his first wife and her father and the grave of a VC.
Timings & Tours
- Saturday 14 September:
- 0930 - 1630
- Sunday 15 September:
- 1200 - 1630
Location & directions
Church Close, Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6 4HE
- Contact on day:
- Ken Smith 07706126174
- Telephone number:
- +447706126174
Booking information
- Pre-booking requirement:
- Pre-booking not required
Accessibility details
Level access via the main North door (under the tower); 2 steps via the South door (through the arch). 2 steps from the nave to the chancel. Parking in the road outside the church.
Additional information
Guided tours may possible, subject to volunteer availability Comprehensive self-guide leaflets available
- Est. tour duration:
- 1 hour(s)
