| 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. |
| 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. |
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The two-manual organ was built by Foster and Andrews of Hull and installed in 1886. This was restored in 2004-5. |
| 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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Registers exist as follows:-
Baptisms - 1876 onwards
Marriages - 1886 onwards
Baptism registers prior to 1954 and marriage registers prior to 1975 are deposited in the Derbyshire Record Office.
There has never been a burial ground at All Saints - burials traditionally took place at St.Giles, Matlock, until that churchyard was closed.
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