All Saints Church, Haggerston, also Church of All Saints, is an

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church in Livermere Road, near the junction with Haggerston Road, in Haggerston in

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, east

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. It is part of a parish with

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and St Philip Dalston (demolished after bombing in

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History and design

All Saints was designed in the

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– best known as architect of the now demolished Euston Arch and the original Birmingham Curzon Street. Constructed of

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with

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dressings, it was built between 1855–56. The church was extended by T.E. Knightley, probably in the early 1860s and due to growth in the congregation, with aisles remodelled and galleries added. It has been extensively repaired, first following a fire and then war damage. Inside, the church is plastered and painted and its

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listing notes that the interior is: “curiously old-fashioned for its date and survives remarkably completely”.

The church today

Today, All Saints is part of Albion Square

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, along with neighbouring residential properties, Albion Square itself and Stonebridge Common. From 1998 to 2014, the vicar was the Revd

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, who also held the roles of

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’s chaplain to the House of Commons, priest vicar at

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and chaplain to the

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References

External links

All Saints description, A Church Near YouAlbion Square Residents’ Association homepage, showing church and some nearby buildings
{{Churches in Hackney Church of England church buildings in the London Borough of Hackney Grade II listed churches in London Churches completed in 1856 19th-century Church of England church buildings Victorian architecture in England Diocese of London 1856 establishments in England Haggerston