All Saints Church is in Main Road,

Higher Kinnerton Higher Kinnerton is a village and community within rural Flintshire, Wales, close to the Wales-England border. Its sister village, Lower Kinnerton, is across the border in Cheshire, England. In the 2001 census it had a population of 1,634, i ...

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, Wales. It is an active

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in the

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, the archdeaconry of Chester, and the deanery of Chester. The church was designed by

Douglas and Fordham John Douglas (11 April 183023 May 1911) was an English architect who designed over 500 buildings in Cheshire, North Wales, and northwest England, in particular in the estate of Eaton Hall. He was trained in Lancaster and practised throu ...

and built in 1893. It is constructed in

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. In addition to a central spire, the

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is carried up into another pyramidal spire. Construction on an extension to the church building was started in 2007. This has been completed, providing the church with on-site facilities including a small kitchen.

Organ

The church

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was built by Hardy of Stockport, with tonal design by

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. It is believed to be the first organ designed by Hope-Jones. The organ initially featured a Tuba Mirabilis, which is an unusual feature for an organ of this small size. The Tuba Mirabilis stop was removed in the 1980s and replaced with an Oboe stop. An unusual feature of Hope-Jones' planned organ design was a ''Great to Swell 2nd Touch'' coupler, and a knob for this exists on the

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, though it appears to have never been connected.Fisher, R: ''All Saints Church, Higher Kinnerton - Organ'', p. 1-2, 2003

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Higher Kinnerton, All Saints Church Churches in Flintshire Churches completed in 1893 19th-century Church of England church buildings John Douglas buildings

Organ

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