Heritage

Visitors to All Saints can find out more about our history in our new heritage gallery. There’s loads to do and see, including trails to learn more about the church’s stained glass, architecture and memorials, interactive displays and an iSpy trail for children. Visitors can explore the history of the church’s oldest object and of the people who’ve lived in Kingston over the past millennium.

Timeline

Find out more about the timeline of All Saints Church, such as coronations of Kings and how the Church has developed…

Where England Began

More than 1000 years ago, Kingston was the place where England began. Before All Saints Church Church was built, its site was an important estate of the West Saxon Kings and host to Royal coronations…

Memorials

All Saints contains hundreds of memorials spanning seven centuries. The memorials tell the human story of the church and the lives of those important in its history…

Stained Glass

All Saints has many stained glass windows, mostly depicting bible stories but also some memorials and a set which tell some of the church’s oldest stories. All Saints’ windows are not as old as you might think, and most of the glass you see can now is Victorian…

East Surrey Memorial Chapel

In 1921 the Chapel of Holy Trinity was dedicated as the Regimental War Memorial of the East Surrey Regiment. The Regiment had long enjoyed close connections with Kingston, and the Chapel was refurbished to pay tribute to its men who had died in the First World War…

St Mary's Chapel

St Mary’s was built in the eleventh century, probably before or shortly after the conquest of 1066 and at least fifty years before All Saints was built. When All Saints was built in the twelfth century, St Mary’s stood to the south side of the church…

Architecture

All Saints Church looked very different from All Saints today when it was first built. The church was cruciform with a tower at its centre. To the north of the tower was the chancel, and to the south there were two transepts of roughly equal depth to the present aisles…

All Saints Musical Traditions

All Saints has a strong musical tradition going back hundreds of years. By the sixteenth century All Saints had a choir which walked in ceremonial processions and sang at special services…

Organ

The instrument, installed in 1988, was designed with three principal uses in mind: as a concert organ, as a continuo organ, and most of all as an organ totally suited to the accompaniment of Anglican choral services…