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The Parish Church of
All Saints, Matlock Bank
Matlock, Derbyshire UK
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The Church Building
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All Saints was built between 1882 and 1884
at a time when Matlock Bank was growing rapidly thanks to the Victorian
middle classes coming to be pampered with water treatments at the local
hydros. Smedley's - now County Hall - was the most prominent of these but
there were dozens of others. The church always catered for visitors to the
hydros as well as local residents. |
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Planned as one of the grandest churches in the Derbyshire
Dales, All Saints was never completed to its original design. Hence it
has a large chancel, but a relatively short nave and a very high roof,
being now effectively half its intended length.
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A good example of late Victorian architecture,
its finest feature is the East Window created in 1904-05 by William Morris
workshops to a design from a Burne-Jones pattern book. The three central
lights of the window depict Christ with the cross as the tree of life; the
Virgin Mary; and St John as a priest with a chalice. |
| The two-manual organ was built by Foster and
Andrews of Hull and installed in 1886. This was restored in 2004-5. |
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The west end of the church was completed in
1958 in a more modest style than originally planned. |
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The Church Hall, adjacent to the east end of the church
was opened in
1970 and forms a base for many of the church organisations.
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| A Garden of Remembrance (for the burial of
ashes) was created in the 1980s. |
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